In 2016, the EPA estimated that the 2022 2025 standards would reduce emissions by about 540 million tons of CO2 equivalent for passenger vehicles sold in those model years (see table 3).
Carbon: The State Department says that once the pipeline is operating, it will result in annual carbon emissions equivalent 626,000 passenger vehicles and 398,000 homes operating for one year.
Passenger traffic was substantial, rising from 11,500 passengers carried in 1867 to over 23,000 (roughly equivalent to 40,000 passenger journeys) in 1877.
The equivalent figures for passenger kilometres are 75% by automobile, 24% by air and 1% by heavy rail.
That's equivalent to 92 passenger cars being taken off the road.
Entrants would have to fly 200 miles in under two hours, while using less than a gallon of fuel (or equivalent energy) per passenger.
The overall T-Pod network will be able to move up to 2,000,000 pallets of goods per year, which Einride says will have roughly the CO2 emissions equivalent of 400,000 passenger cars traveling the equivalent distance.
Nationally for Thanksgiving, that's 1.1 billion miles - plenty for lots of trips to Grandma's house for pumpkin pie - and the equivalent of 100,499 passenger vehicles driven for one year.
Whereas their passenger equivalents tend to monopolise regions, freight networks can charge up and down the country.
But despite the price, the jostling to be front of the queue has already begun.For that, thank Burt Rutan, the Californian aviation pioneer who won the $10m Ansari X-Prize in 2004 for launching his SpaceShipOne, a reusable rocket ship with a pilot and a payload equivalent to two passengers, into suborbital space twice within a fortnight.
