Hybrid vs ethanol - voice from Brazil
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Hybrid vs ethanol - voice from Brazil
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=37378
Curiously, this pretty well agrees with my view on the subject. Only part of the problem is the source of the carbon fuel. The ultimate problem is vehicle and transportation efficiency.
Bob Wilson
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Automotive engineering professor Marcelo Massarani at the Polytechnic School of Sao Paulo University told IPS that HEVs can cut pollution caused by vehicles powered by fossil fuels by 80 percent, "and sometimes by up to 90 percent."
An HEV is still 10 to 20 percent more expensive to buy than a conventional car, but in Sao Paulo there would be an average net saving of 18,000 reals (8,800 dollars) over the life of the vehicle, Juliana de Queiroz concluded in her master's thesis, which was supervised by Massarani.
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Automotive engineering professor Marcelo Massarani at the Polytechnic School of Sao Paulo University told IPS that HEVs can cut pollution caused by vehicles powered by fossil fuels by 80 percent, "and sometimes by up to 90 percent."
An HEV is still 10 to 20 percent more expensive to buy than a conventional car, but in Sao Paulo there would be an average net saving of 18,000 reals (8,800 dollars) over the life of the vehicle, Juliana de Queiroz concluded in her master's thesis, which was supervised by Massarani.
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Re: Hybrid vs ethanol - voice from Brazil
8,800 dollars? I think only on paper. It's hard to measure health related savings. And to throw in Kyoto numbers seems a bit artificial to. In real world dollars, the number is considerably less.
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