Honda Greening their Fleet

I am very excited for Honda who is pushing to green their fleet. Honda has been named the Greenest Automaker in the country. Honda has been making green fleets for some time. Their biggest contender against Toyota's Prius was the Insight. For some reason, Honda stopped their production of the compact vehicle and focused only on their Civic Hybrid. The Insight had better fuel mileage than the Prius when it first came out. After the Insight and the Civic, Honda made their Accord a hybrid. The most promising fleets that are in the works are hydrogen fuel cell vehicles that are being tested. Honda has reined the Greenest Automaker for the past four years.

Honda’s has three goals they strive to achieve: improve fuel efficiency to lessen greenhouse gas emission; reduce fog-forming emission; and enhance and develop alternative fuel. For their 2008 fleet, the Accord will be diesel. With diesel engines, alternative fuel such as biodiesel can be used. Biodiesel is a much better alternative from gasoline. With different blend, one can lower their greenhouse gas emission. Using B20 blend, 20% biodiesel and 80% petroleum diesel, one can lower their emission about 60% than gasoline vehicles. One can use different blends from 100% to 2%.

Honda is definitely the top contender form other companies to green their fleet. I think that they should create electric vehicles that are of reasonable size for individuals who have a family size of three or more. It would also be good if they created fleets that ran on biodiesel and electricity. I am very excited for other companies such as Toyota to add more vehicles to their fleet for competition with Honda. The Accord did not sell well as a hybrid but I believe the diesel will do much better and is better for the environment if they use biodiesel.