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.
In any event, the highest available rating for gasoline-powered vehicles is PZEV. Sierra offers many of them. For reference below, we’ve also included the miles per gallon for the current models, which is a measure of greenhouse gas emissions (higher MPG, fewer GHG). These estimates are from brochures, EPA’s green vehicle guide and manufacturer web sites. They are only estimates and, as we have said throughout this guide, they vary depending on how you drive. The EPA estimate on the vehicle is the estimate that controls – the ones below may be different. We’ve tried to be accurate, but might have made mistakes. Please check the data on the vehicle you are interested in to obtain the correct EPA estimates and ARB ratings.
Honda
PZEV:
Accord Sedan 4 cylinder Automatic: ALL (LX, LX-P, EX, EX-L) EPA 21 city/31 hwy/ 24 combined
Accord Sedan V6: (EX V6, EX-L V6) EPA 19 city/ 29 hwy/ 22 combined
Accord Coupe 4 cylinder automatic: ALL (LX-S, EX, EX-L) EPA 21 city/ 30 hwy/ 25 combined
Accord Coupe EX-L V6 automatic EPA 19 city/28 hwy/ 22 combined
Ultra Low Emissions (ULEV)- Tier II:
Accord Sedan manual transmission: ALL (LX, LX-P, EX, EX-L) EPA 22 city/ 31 hwy/ 25 combined
Accord Coupe 4 cylinder manual transmission ALL - (LX-S, EX, EX-L) EPA 22 city/31 hwy/ 25 combined
Accord Coupe EX-L V6 manual transmission EPA 17 city/ 25 hwy/ 20 combined
Civic Sedan manual transmission: ALL (DX, LX, EX, EX-L) EPA 26 city/ 34 hwy/ 29 combined
Civic Sedan automatic transmission: DX, LX, EX, EX-L EPA 25 city/ 36 hwy/ 29 combined
Civic Coupe manual transmission: ALL (DX, LX, EX, EX-L) EPA 26 city/ 34 hwy/ 29 combined
Civic Coupe automatic transmission: DX, LX, EX, EX-L EPA 25 city/ 36 hwy/ 29 combined
CR-V 2wd: ALL (LX, EX, EX-L) EPA 20 city/ 27 hwy/ 23 combined
CR-V 4wd: ALL (LX, EX, EX-L) EPA 20 city/26 hwy/ 22 combined
Odyssey LX, EX: EPA 16 city/ 23 hwy/ 18 combined
Odyssey EX-L, Touring: EPA 17 city/ 25 hwy/ 20 combined
Pilot 2wd: ALL (LX, EX, EX-L, Touring) EPA 17 city/ 23 hwy/ 19 combined
Pilot 4wd: ALL (LX, EX, EX-L, Touring) EPA 16 city/ 22 hwy/ 18 combined
Ridgeline: ALL (RT, RTX, RTS, RTL) EPA 15 city/ 20 hwy/ 17 combined
AT-PZEV:
Civic Hybrid EPA 40 city/ 45 hwy/ 42 combined
Civic GX EPA “gasoline equivalent” 24 city/ 36 hwy/ 28 combined.
Subarus
PZEV
Forester 2.5L horizontally opposed SOHC EPA 20 city/26 hwy
SULEV
Outback 2.5L 4 cyl. EPA 20city/26 hwy auto
19 city/26 hwy man
Legacy 2.5L 4 cyl. EPA 20 city. 27 hwy
Chevrolets
PZEV
COBALT 2.2L 4 cyl LT/LS coupe or sedan EPA 24 city/33 hwy
IMPALA 3.5L 6 cyl – LS and LT EPA 18 city/24 hwy
ULEV-2
CORVETTE 6.2L 8 cylinder EPA 16 city/26 hwy man
15 city/25 hwy auto
AVEO (Engine, ECOTEC 1.6L DOHC 16-valve 4-cylinder MFI) EPA 27 city/34 hwy man 25 city/34 hwy auto
AVEO5 (Engine: ECOTEC 1.6L DOHC 16-valve 4-cylinder MFI) EPA 23 city/32 hwy man
24 city/34 hwy auto
Equinox (Engine 3.4L 6 cyl) EPA 17 city/24 hwy
HHR (Engine 2.2L 4 cyl) EPA 22 city/ 30 hwy auto
21 city/ 30 hwy man
BUICK
SULEV(PZEV)
LUCERNE 3.8L 6 cyl EPA 16 city/25 hwy
LACROSSE 3.8L 6 cyl. EPA 17 city/28 hwy
SULEV (PZEV)
Mazda3i sedan (engine: type LFX, 16 valve, 4 cyl 2.0L) EPA 24city/32 manual
EPA 23city/30 automatic
Mazda3s sedan (engine: type L3X, 16 valve, 4 cyl 2.3L) EPA 22city/29 hwy
Mazda3s (5-door) (engine: type L3X, 16 valve, 4 cyl. 2.3L) EPA 22city/29 hwy
Mazda6i sedan (engine: 16 valve, 4 cyl. 2.5L) EPA 21/30 hwy
ULEV
Mazdaspeed3 EPA 18city/26 hwy
Mazda6s sedan (engine 24 valve, 6 cyl. 3.7L) EPA 17city/25 hwy
Miata MX-5 (engine 16 valve, 4 cyl. 2.0L) EPA 20 city/27 hwy auto
SV and Sport EPA 22 city/27 hwy man
Touring, grand touring and SE EPA 21 city/26 hwy man
RX-8 (engine: Renesis 2 rotor rotory; 1.3L) EPA 16 city/23 hwy auto
EPA 16 city/22 hwy man
CX-9 (engine: 24 valve 6 cyl) EPA 16 city/22 hwy FWD
EPA 15 city/21 hwy AWD
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