Eco Friendly Chauffeur Cars
Eco-friendly chauffeur car hire
Reduce your carbon footprint by hiring a Lexus Hybrid chauffeur car from iChauffeur's Eco Chauffeur service.
Eco Chauffeur is a step towards a sustainable future, demonstrating that alternative fuelled vehicles are a viable option, even for luxury travel. Combined with carbon offsetting from Climate Care, this is the state-of-the-art in environmentally friendly, sustainable travel.
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Researching the luxury car market for environmentally friendly cars, we have found several different technologies that promise a cleaner future and help combat climate change.
Electric, Hybrid, Biodiesel and Hydrogen are the main contenders for carbon neutral travel, and the aim of this site is to explore these technologies to find which is the best method of combating climate change.
Hybrid Vehicles- Toyota, Honda and Lexus have led the way in Hybrid technology. At the moment, Hybrid powered vehicles are often cited as a cleaner means of travel. Hybrid vehicles use electric motors at low speeds in urban areas and high economy petrol engines on longer runs. Sounds ideal, but the batteries used come at a considerable cost to the environment, and the additional weight makes them not that fuel efficient.
Mercedes-Benz plan to introduce a hybrid S Class in 2008 and Eco Chauffeur will test this vehicle to see if it can help iChauffeur to cut down on it's CO2 emissions when it arrives in the UK.
Hydrogen Cars- The BMW Hydrogen 7 is a new type of Hybrid vehicle. It uses a conventional, petrol powered engine that can also run on Hydrogen power. When the H2 button is pressed, the car then uses Liquid Hydrogen fuel. It may be some time before this model goes into large-scale production, but the premise seems to offer some hope for a cleaner earth.
Biodiesel Vehicles- Biodiesel is manufactured from biological sources and represents a viable alternative to fossil fuelled vehicles. Biodiesel reduces emissions of carbon monoxide (CO) by approximately 50% and carbon dioxide by 78% on a net lifecycle basis because the carbon in biodiesel emissions is recycled from carbon that was in the atmosphere, rather than the carbon introduced from petroleum that was sequestered in the earth's crust. (Sheehan, 1998). Many modern diesel engines can run on a blend of Biodiesel with little or no engine modifications.
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