The object of this analysis of hybrid vehicles is to determine what ecological impact they will have when introduced into Worcester, MA vehicle population. The ability to reduce a vast amount of pollution created each year is valuable by any means possible, and the hybrid vehicle may be one solution. An internal combustion powered vehicle pollutes seven times more than a hybrid gas-electric vehicle. To totally replace all of the vehicles on the road in Worcester with hybrids would reduce the pollution to 16 percent of its current amount; only 1,000 tons of airborne pollution compared to the current 6,250 tons. The best solution at this point is most likely a "phasing in" of new hybrid technology.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Mills, Elizabeth Marie
• Watt, Micah Inglis
• Klempner, Adam Robert

Subject

• Environment
• Industry
• Community
• Sustainability

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 02D019I

Stichwort

• Sustainable development--Economic aspects
• Sustainability
• Air--Pollution

Advisor

• Gerstenfeld, Arthur

Year

• 2002

Date created

• 2002-01-01

Ort

• Worcester

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright