Sierra Mazda’s Guide to Green Driving: Part 4
Natural Gas Vehicles
The Honda Civic GX is truly engineered for the environment. Honda gives you the details at this Honda Civic GX link, which is worth checking out. It is an advanced technology partial zero emission vehicle (AT-PZEV) and, if you lease an in-home refueling system, you can re-fuel in your own garage. The Civic GX gets between 220 and 250 miles per fill-up. You can fill up quickly at special service stations located around Southern California or, if you have the home system, it can take up to 16 hours to fully refill the tank.
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Conventional gasoline, high-miles-per-gallon vehicles Sierra offers
The California Air Resources Board categorizes new vehicles for sale in California as Low Emission Vehicles (LEV), Ultra Low Emission Vehicles (ULEV), Super Ultra Low Emission Vehicles (SULEV), Partial Zero Emission Vehicles (PZEV), Alternate Fuel Partial Zero Emission Vehicles (AT-PZEV) and zero emission vehicles (ZEV). For detail on what these categories mean, see the ARB’s pdf at:
http://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/zevprog/factsheets/calemissions.pdf.
These designations apply to criteria pollutants (hydrocarbons, oxides of nitrogen, carbon monoxide, particulates, lead, ozone and oxides of sulfur). Next year there will be a new label on new vehicles in California that shows the relative effects of the vehicle’s carbon dioxide emissions which affect global warming, but really that measure has been there for a long time in the form of the EPA mileage estimates, which correlate directly with CO2 emissions.
