Greener Travel
Climate change poses many challenges for all transport organisations. Carbon emissions are a significant climate change issue, steadily increasing the Earth’s surface temperature and adding to Global Warming. It is estimated 26 billion tons of carbon dioxide every year are produced.
Coaches are the greenest form of ground transport producing only half of the CO2 emitted by rail, quarter of a car and 1/6 of air travel.
Here at Clarkes coaches we are always looking to help with any environmental issues and in turn reduce emissions, we focus our energy in the following environmentally friendly ways:
Reducing Pollution
The European Commission Standards, released in a sequence of European Union Directives, outline satisfactory limits for exhaust emissions for all new vehicles sold in European Union member states.
All our vehicles adhere to European Commission Standards and comply with Euro III, IV and V.
The engines on our vehicles utilise the SCR (Mercedes) or EGR (Scania) systems.
BlueTec technology is based around selective catalyst reduction (SCR) system designed to convert NOx emissions to water and Nitrogen. Offering high efficiency, reduced emissions and exceptionally economical fuel consumption.
Exhaust Gas Re-circulation (EGR) – EGR works by re-circulating a portion of an engine's exhaust gas back to the engine cylinders, the exhaust gas replaces some of the excess oxygen in the pre-combustion mixture. Since NOx formation progresses much faster at high temperatures, EGR reduces the amount of NOx the combustion generates.
Low Emission Zone
All our vehicles comply with the Low Emission Zone and avoid paying a surcharge on entry to the zone by meeting the Euro III and IV standard.
Reduce Congestion
Coach Travel also helps reduce congestion on the roads. A single coach can transport 53 passengers thereby substituting 13+ cars on the road, yet take the space of two cars.
‘Take the environmentally friendly approach, Choose Greener Travel by choosing Clarkes of London coaches’