16-10-2019, 07:43 PM
For any Seven owner wishing to defend their not hugely effiicent old vehicle they can point out that manufacture of a new car is reckoned to produce 10.5 tonnes of CO2 and the recycling 1.8 tonnes. It was not clear if this figure additonal to or included in the 10.5. To run the cars the power system in Oz was reckoned to produce 170 gm CO2/km and in NZ 25 gm/km, whilst fossil vehicles 250 gm CO2/km.
I would be interested in the basis of Ian's comment.
(Nearly 20 years ago, when my 1964 car was already old, at a school camp one impudent imp passenger asked if it polluted. He suffered a 10 minute ear bashing about the pollution produced to scrap and replace it, and that it had avoided this. (I chose not to mention that it had an open crankcase vent and the rings were shot.)
I would be interested in the basis of Ian's comment.
(Nearly 20 years ago, when my 1964 car was already old, at a school camp one impudent imp passenger asked if it polluted. He suffered a 10 minute ear bashing about the pollution produced to scrap and replace it, and that it had avoided this. (I chose not to mention that it had an open crankcase vent and the rings were shot.)