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Dacia has expanded its eco2 brand name with a few new vehicles – the Sandero and Logan 1.4 LPG, the Logan MCV 1.6 LPG, the Sandero 1.6 E85 bioethanol, and a new engine variant for the Sandero and Logan that users a 1.2 liter 16 valve 75 horsepower engine with emissions of 139g/km.
To qualify as an eco2 vehicle, a Dacia vehicle has to meet the same standard’s as Renault’s own eco2 brand. The vehicle must have CO2 emissions of less or equal to 140g/km, or must be biofuel compatible. The car must also be produced in one of two ISO 14001-certified plants, which are either the Somaca factory in Morocco or the Pitesti factory in Romania. The car must also be 95% end-of-life recoverable by weight, and at least 5% which they contain must be sourced from recycling.
Their argument for bioethanol can be seen in the image above, which not only takes into account vehicle CO2 output but the total CO2 output of the whole process of getting the fuel from its source into your car’s fuel tank. Plus the source of the bioethanol actually consumes CO2, which further improves the fuel’s “carbon footprint“.
Good news! The Dacia Sandero is coming to the UK!
Hope TC can bring us some Dacia…
Renault Logan and Renault Sandero, both made in Brazil, have flex fuel engine wich works from 100% ethanol to 100% gasoline or in any proportion between.
and at the so called “sources” that consumes C02, it will produce mega tonnes of NOx due to intensive fertilizer application.
Not to mention all those leftover that got flushed into river and lake.
What priceless here is the willingness to do their little part of saving the world while most of us couldn’t care more about saving a piece of plastic bag.
very nice car, better than stupid proton
I’ve never read so much stupid things if applied to ethanol from sugar cane. There are none leftovers, they’re used as liquid organic fertilizer. Intensive fertilizer use? My god, maybe on the poor soils elsewhere. Not Here. Does superphosfate produce NOx? Lime or gypsum? Of course not. Bleargh!
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