- Travel statistics from the UK department for transport shows that the distance travelled per car in 2005 was around 9000 miles per year in the UK.
- A light-duty vehicle (“car”) consumes 330 gallons of gasoline per year if it goes 10,000
miles with a fuel economy of 30 mpg. The carbon content of a gallon of gasoline is about 2.4 kg
(specific gravity = 0.74; 85% carbon by weight), leading to 3 kg of carbon emissions per gallon
of gasoline when one adds about 25% carbon “overheads” incurred at production, at the refinery
and further downstream . Thus, a typical car emits a ton of carbon into the air each year.
For more information on Road Transport, see the ImpEE Resource "Road Transport".
