The electric all-purpose car is too expensive to be considered a cost-effective solution for GHG mitigation.
Based on the information in this section, we chose two driving patterns, 'commuter car' and 'all-purpose car' , to represent the use patterns in Germany.
FT diesel is found to save the most GHG, followed by biogenic electricity for the commuter car and SNG for the all-purpose car.
One pattern can be defined as 'all-purpose car usage', meaning that one car is used for different purposes such as commuting, shopping, holiday trips, and others.
It was an all-purpose car with a large boot and room for six passengers - but it was the back seat that was its trump card.
For the all-purpose car, regardless of the scenario, natural gas has the lowest GHG reduction costs (because of cost savings compared to diesel), even though the possible GHG reductions are quite small.
We suggest using at least two different mobility patterns and car types: the smaller commuter car and the bigger all-purpose car to better reflect specific advantages of each fuel for different car usage patterns.
Table 5 Driving patterns for the commuter car and for the all-purpose car Unit Commuter car All-purpose car Size Mini-compact class Compact class-minivan Minimum seats Seats 4 5 Range km 140 400 Percentage, urban-road-motorway (CADC) % 50 - 35 - 15 20 - 50 - 30 Minimum top speed km/h 130 160 Yearly driven distance km/year 12,000 18,000 Service life Years 12 12.
The Lusso's immediate antecedent had been the 250 SWB, a true dual-purpose car that was capable of coping equally well with the conflicting demands of road and track.
The differences between the commuter and the all-purpose car arise mainly from the different weighting of the urban, road, and motorway parts of the driving cycle (c.f. Table 5), as well as from the needed battery size for the electric vehicle.
As an all-purpose car, you're better off with gas for now, of course, but that's because the Leaf represents a generation of vehicles that isn't yet supported by our infrastructure — a 50-year-old infrastructure based very effectively around petroleum.
