[Greenbuilding] [BULK] Re: Tata reveals the world's cheapest car

[Keith Winston]

And a 50mpg Tata in Bombay traffic isn't going to happen either.

Years ago I saw an estimate for total time spent related to automotive 
travel (driving, in traffic jams, working to pay for the car, etc) vs. 
miles traveled. It turned out we're traveling at just about walking 
speeds... But we're spending much more time "walking" than we used to 
(and getting a lot less exercise)!

Keith


Bob Korves wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Reuben Deumling" <9watts at gmail.com>
> To: "Benjamin Pratt" <prattb at uwstout.edu>; "Greenbuilder list" 
> <GREENBUILDING at listserv.repp.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 2:45 PM
> Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] [BULK] Re: Tata reveals the world's cheapest 
> car
>
>
>   
>> If we're talking about cars, I'd hesitate to call anything that gets 50mpg
>> 'incredibly inefficient.' The US fleet today gets a real world average of
>> something just over 24mpg, I believe.
>>     
> (big snip)
>
> I think the 'real world' on fuel mileage is when you take all the miles
> driven in this country and divide it by all the gallons of gasoline used.
> Counting warmups, idling, traffic jams, gridlock, cold climates, short
> trips, and lots of older vehicles, SUV's and pickups I would be _very_
> surprised to see an achieved average fuel mileage of 24 mpg for the entire
> fleet.  Gut reaction only, no data.  I'm just thinking about transportation
> as I view it and guessing...
>
> I briefly tried to find statistics for this, but total miles driven would
> likely be a WAG anyway.
> -Bob Korves
>
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