Sep

Used car buyers in England getting increasingly aware of CO2 emissions

Posted by admin Published in Etc., MPG

The number of new cars sold every year is just a tiny fraction of all the cars on the road. There are currently somewhere around 230 million cars on the road in the US and only about 16-17 million new cars per year. The number of second-hand cars that are sold annually dwarfs those sales with an estimated 44 million sales in 2005. It now turns out that just like new car buyers, used car buyers (at least in the UK) are plus fitting increasingly aware of the environmental affect of the vehicles they buy.

A survey of 150 used car dealers in Britain says that seventy-two percent

of buyers are increasingly aware of the cars’ CO2 emissions of the cars. There are a number of different reasons for that with fifty-four percent citing taxes as the reason. that would particularly form sense for drivers who go into London where cars with CO2 emissions of less than 120 g/km are exempt from the congestion charge. Another thirty percent cited general environmental awareness while twenty-eight percent have realized that CO2 emissions are directly related to fuel consumption.

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Original post by Sam Abuelsamid