Renault Kangoo CO2 emission city traffic

The Kangoo is an ideal study object about the CO2 emission of different drive concepts, because it exists as gasoline, diesel, natural gas and plug-in-hybrid vehicle.

European norm consumption in city traffic

Drive energy	CO2 emission	g/km
Gasolin 9.6 Litre		227
Diesel 6.7 Litre		178
Natural gas 8.3 kg		184
Lignite 14,4 kWh		158
Coal		130
German electricity mix 2007		74
Natural gas		53
Austrian electricity mix		36
Austrian railways electricity mix		17
Photovoltaic / Wind energy		6

In city traffc has an electric drive a much better efficiency then a ICE internal combustion engine.

Even with electric power from lignite is the elctric version better than the natural gas and diesel version.