Green Options » luxury cars http://greenoptions.com/tag/luxury-cars Posts tagged 'luxury cars' Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:17:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en British Queen Elizabeth II Converts $15 Million Bentleys to Biofuel http://gas2.org/2009/01/02/british-queen-elizabeth-ii-converts-15-million-bentleys-to-biofuel/ http://gas2.org/2009/01/02/british-queen-elizabeth-ii-converts-15-million-bentleys-to-biofuel/#comments Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:17:14 +0000 Jennifer Lance http://gas2.org/2009/01/02/british-queen-elizabeth-ii-converts-15-million-bentleys-to-biofuel/ The Queen converts her Bentleys to biofuels

The British Queen Elizabeth II has two state Bentleys, which according to the US Department of Energy gets nine MPG in the city and uses 31.1 barrels of petroleum a year. These royal $15 million gas guzzlers are being converted to bio-ethanol.

According to Jalopnik, the Queen is preempting Bentley’s move to biofuels:

Queen Elizabeth the II, who lives rent free in several state-owned mansions and castles — the poorly insulated kind that are a bitch to heat in the winter — travels by a state-owned private jet and requires a security detail that uses many fossil fuel powered cars, trucks, motorcycles and helicopters, has decided to do her bit for the environment. The biofuel conversion is estimated to increase the fuel economy of her two, scarcely used, Bentleys by a staggering 40%. How? By burning some of her tiny island nation’s food supply in place of gasoline. Bentley is expected to introduce a similar system for its range of luxury cars by 2012, allowing similarly well-heeled individuals to feel better about themselves while dining on imported fine foodstuffs.

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]]> http://gas2.org/2009/01/02/british-queen-elizabeth-ii-converts-15-million-bentleys-to-biofuel/feed/ The Bentley: Mos’ Green? http://ecoscraps.com/2008/03/07/the-bentley-mos-green/ http://ecoscraps.com/2008/03/07/the-bentley-mos-green/#comments Sat, 08 Mar 2008 01:35:55 +0000 Shirley Siluk Gregory http://ecoscraps.com/2008/03/07/the-bentley-mos-green/ The Bentley badge and hood ornament. (Photo courtesy of Dan Smith.)Of all car companies, Bentley Motors is embarking on a new green, carbon dioxide-reduction strategy. Announced at this year’s Geneva “auto salon,” the strategy aims, by 2012, to cut emissions and fuel consumption by 15 percent, and to introduce a new powertrain that slashes fuel requirements by 40 percent.

Photo courtesy of Dan Smith via Wikimedia Commons.

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