So what’s the greenest car ever made? Well there may well be lots of cars and their manufactures that try to stake such a claim, of course.
But one car maker that deserves the accolade of having put together the greenest car of all is undoubtedly Honda.
“Why is that and what is the car in question” I hear you ask.
Easy; it’s the Honda Civic GX 4DR – and it is powered by natural gas.
But don’t think of this as some weird concept car that will never hit the showrooms. Not a bit of it in fact, for the Civic GX will be available from the Japanese manufacturer’s showrooms very soon across the United States.
The compressed natural gas powered Civic has already been market tested with governments, business top fleets and a few test retail markets and Honda has clearly decided the world is now ready for this greener than green car.
And it’s been around for quite some time. In fact, when the Civic GX was awarded the accolade of the Greenest Car of 2011 by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, it was the eighth year in a row that the car had been awarded the top prize.
Honda still only makes a few thousand of the cars each year, so it may be a while before it’s voted the best family car – but it may also be the future of green motoring once compressed natural gas becomes more widely available.
The Civic GX’s U.S. retail launch scheduled for later in 2011 comes as President Barack Obama has asked for the wider adoption of low emission cars – and says that all federal cars will need to run on alternative, hybrid or electric power by 2015.