Actually Volvo does produces several cars that when in use leave the
air cleaner than they found it. My 05 V70 is such a model.
Yes it has a catylist coating on the radiator as well as some other
trick features emission wise.
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On Feb 27, 2009, at 11:26 AM, Paul Root <ptrmgb@gmail.com> wrote:
> I thought that was Volvo?
>
> On Feb 27, 2009, at 11:53 AM, Barney Gaylord wrote:
>
>> At 10:45 AM 2/27/2009 -0600, Paul Root wrote:
>>> .... there's a lot of sticking ones head in the sand of
>>> environmentalists that think a Zero emission car has no
>>> environmental effect from it's use.
>>> ....
>>
>> We all know that electric cars pollute by way of what comes out of
>> the electrical power generating plant. So how about a REAL
>> practical negative pollution vehicle? Some years ago when the
>> government was mandating production of "zero pollution" vehicles,
>> Honda built a negative pollution vehicle that runs on common
>> gasoline, and you wouldn't know it from any other gasoline powered
>> car. They put catalyst plating on the outside of the cooling
>> radiator. The radiator then removed more pollutants from the
>> ambient air than the car was emitting from the tail pipe, thus
>> making it a negative pollution vehicle, actually cleaning the air
>> as you drove.
>>
>> You can guess where that went. Bureaucrats with a vested interest
>> in electric cars shot it down because the emissions standards only
>> consider tail pipe emissions. Ignoring negative emissions of the
>> catalytic radiator, is just as stupid as ignoring positive
>> emissions of coal fired electric power plants.
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