Journey Planner
Plan a journey from A to B with biofuels.
The calculator compares CO2 emissions from a flexi-fuel car with that from a medium engine petrol car. The calculations for the medium engine petrol car includes an uplift for petrol engine vehicles driven in "real world" conditions and published in a June 2007 methodology paper published by DEFRA Passenger transport emissions factors: taking into account general maintenance and tyre pressure, eco-driving and air conditioning use. Fuel consumption can increase up to 20-25% when on full power. Sharing the fuel bill between the driver and passengers will reduce the cost per journey.
Hansard Written Answers for 9th November 2009: Biofuels
David Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what steps his Department is taking to promote the production of sustainable biofuels in the UK. [298368]
Joan Ruddock: The UK was instrumental in ensuring the EU renewable energy directive contains sustainability criteria that will apply from December 2010 to biofuels for transport and bioliquids for heat and electricity, used in the UK and in other European member states.
The directive also placed a requirement on the Commission to report on the need for sustainability criteria for the solid biomass used for heat and electricity by 31 December 2009, and to bring forward proposals as appropriate. Ahead of this, in April 2009, we introduced a sustainability reporting requirement to the Renewables Obligation for electricity generators over 50kW combusting biomass. In addition, grant applications to our energy crops scheme are subject to an environmental assessment.
