Which is cleanest? Hybrid, Petrol or Diesel?

[rf065]

Two-tonne diesel beats all petrol cars and matches full hybrids in eco tests - Which? News

The diesel car is the ‘cleanest combustion-engined vehicle’ ever tested by environmental body Green NCAP

www.which.co.uk

 

[MBDevotee]

Depends what you mean by "Clean" lol - everyone has their own views.

Diesels are economical, swift and very good - sadly now demonised
Petrols are clean enough
Good Hybrids could be cleaner, but Merc don't have a great reputation for Hybrid - if you want a hybrid buy a Toyota!
EV - Cleaner once built, but there are some people who don't think making them is particularly "green".

I think just buy the one that suits your needs best. If company car, go electric - the Benefit in Kind makes them an absolute no-brainer, but if private purchase, and less than 15,000m a year I'd go petrol these days, over 15,000m a year diesel has a good argument for it.

 

[malcolm E53 AMG]

Yes, as above, the car salesman won’t tell you this but make sure you buy the car that suits the kind of motoring you do in my case I’d choose:
- city car; EV or small petrol
- <10k miles a year petrol
- >10k miles a year diesel

 

[JBell]

Yes, as above, the car salesman won’t tell you this but make sure you buy the car that suits the kind of motoring you do in my case I’d choose:
- city car; EV or small petrol
- <10k miles a year petrol
- >10k miles a year diesel

Diesel is 15k+, wouldn't touch one for town driving

 

[MBDevotee]

10k a year is probably EV too - I do 18k a year and that's easily within the bounds of EV (My boss does 50k a year and does that in an EV without problems but he does have to consider rapid charging)

10K a year isn't even 1000m a month - that's not even close to what an EV can do without using public charging (all of which assumes you can fit a charger at home of course) but assuming your EV can do 250m (which most can now) and that's easily 1000m a week in an EV without ever once using a public charger.

As I say, I do 18k a year and have only used public charging about 4 times in that time - all the rest has been at work, and public charging is pretty easy now on a long run (if no longer cheap) but home charging is for next to nothing......