253 Million Cars on the Road

[jeff88]

When reading about energy efficiency and what a major change does (say increasing solar by 10 GW), I'm constantly reading:

...or the equivalent to X million cars taken off the road.

It got me to thinking about what is the number of cars on the road. Found this article: Number of Cars

253 million cars on U.S. roadways!!! And the average age is over 11 years! This was a study done in June of last year, so it might have changed, but I doubt it changed by much (in either direction).

Just thought I'd share!

[user removed]

When I quit qorking on them for a living, the average age was about 8 years. My Sentra is 23 years old this month. Antique in Va at 25, beginning with the Sept 2016, 2017 models.

regards
mech

[Frank Lee]

1,015,000,000 cars worldwide in 2010; 2,500,000,000 by 2050? And get rid of those stupid bicycles while you're at it:

Number Of Cars Worldwide Surpasses 1 Billion; Can The World Handle This Many Wheels?

Hmmmm... if average vehicle has six cylinders that would have been 6,090,000,000 cylinders (six Billion ninety Million) to feed in '10; 4,060,000,000 tires... how many of them low on air? Can we get Autostarts on all of them? Please?

[Xist]

Originally Posted by Frank Lee

Can we get Autostarts on all of them? Please?

You should be locked up, you maniac! We need to keep them running 24/7!

[Frank Lee]

Ask any dumb redneck midwestern diesel owner and they'll tell ya, diesels use NO fuel while idling, and starting them is oh so tough, one simply must let it idle 24/7. I've actually seen it. Not making it up. Not exaggerating. :/

[dirtydave]

The idling drives me crazy. The crew I work for rents box trucks from penske and they like to idle the vehicle after they pull it around the front. walking around the outside looking for damage. Idling the entire time. I can hardly hear the guy talk.

"See that dent here and here and here and here, also the airdam has a missing piece" "huh... wut..??" "grrr go turn the truck back on justin! Stupid idle timer" and others such as "don't press the ECO button! It makes it slower!"

Or how about the long line of minivans idling in front of the school waiting for the bell for class. all just sitting around making a big could of fumes for the small children to walk around in.

FOOLS ! I TELL YOU!! FOOLS!!

[Xist]

Originally Posted by Xist

When I drove a school bus, [o]ne day pamphlets from the AZDOT showed up telling us that an idling engine consumed as much fuel as one powering a vehicle traveling seventy miles an hour.

None of us believed it. One driver said that he had idled for two hours recently and it had not used anything.

I believe that is called perpetual motion or magic.

http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...tml#post328212

That was on a hundred-gallon tank and in that thread we guessed that a large diesel would burn one gallon an hour. Considering the accuracy of fuel gauges and how little attention the guy paid to it, I cannot imagine him noticing a decrease of one percent per hour.

Of course, the worst part of idling engines is the Gasoline Fumes!
http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...ame-30846.html

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by Frank Lee

Hmmmm... if average vehicle has six cylinders that would have been 6,090,000,000 cylinders (six Billion ninety Million) to feed in '10

I thought the average amount of cylinders was about 4 to 5, considering the popularity of 3-cyl and at a lower extent 2-cyl engines in Europe, Japan and China. In Europe, nowadays about 20 to 25% of all brand-new Ford cars have been fitted with the 3-cyl 1.0L Ecoboost...

[Frank Lee]

Sounds like a good research project for you.