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As a baseline data point, my Honda Insight gets 3.3 l/100km, using 1999 car technology. With two passengers, that's 1.6 l/100km/passenger.

Another datapoint for a conventional car. I've just run the numbers on the road trip we did at Xmas and the petrol-engined Honda Civic we got about 7l/100km (40mpg in old money) on the ~1100km London-Munich route.

Given there were three of us, that works out at 55 g CO2/pkm which is within spitting distance of the long-distance rail number DoDo gives. Add another passenger (or upgrade to diesel and/or hybrid) and a car starts to be the best option in carbon terms as well as price.

Regards
Luke

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by silburnl on Thu Jan 24th, 2008 at 11:34:46 AM EST
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