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Is An Old Volvo Green? 200 1985

posted by  someone claiming to be Klus on  Fri Dec 17 04:38 CST 2010 [RELATED]

Not very green, but still somewhat comparable to European cars of the same size. On LPG it makes approx. 190 g/km CO2, on petrol 240. A 2006 V70 (basic petrol handshift) made 214 g/km, the 2008 version did 172 g/km (probably due to test-dodging). Small diesels can drive around for ca. 100 g/km.

Driving it long time won't make it greener either. I found two number for CO2 emissions during production, one says 20 ton/car, VW and Renault estimate 4,5-6 ton/car. Last figure is more recent and prob. more accurate.
A 240 that drove 200.000 miles on petrol has already produced 64 tons of CO2.






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