On the first day of the Summit Stef and Selene Kolman told us about their project OpenCarData, demonstrated the Emission Profiles application and launched a competition. For this competition summit visitors were invited to drive one lap in a VW polo equipped with Opencardata Technology and competed who can emit the least amount of CO2 during the lap. Stef collected the first interesting test results from the driving (con)test.

• A total of 18 drivers have participated, all of them sourced from the public
• The test vehicle has been occupied full time
• No accidents occured.
• All jockeys drove a (2010) Volkswagen Polo, along a 4.5km city circuit in the heart of Amsterdam
• The first driver started at 09.55am the last driver at 16.41PM

According the UK “New Car Fuel Consumption & Emission Fugures” authoroty VCA (http://www.vca.gov.uk) this particular VW Polo consumes:

• 8 liters of petrol per 100km on urban/city roads (4.7 liters of petrol per 100km on extra urban roads)
• The car should have a combined (urban & suburban) CO2 emission of: 150gCO2/km … Good for a C label

Now the results … Which we think are spectacular:

• Our least efficient driver used 11.9L/100km
• Our most efficient driver used 7.2L/100km
• Our least efficient driver emitted an evarage of 274 gCO2/km good for a G-Label
• Our most efficient driver scored a D-Label with 166 gCO2/km
• The percentage delta (%∆) of these individual results is no less then 65%

This is much more than Stef and Selene anticipated on. “It strengthens us in our believe that we are on the right track to building a convincing emission management tool”.

Thanks Stef and Selene Kolman. Good luck!

Read more about Stef Kolman and Open Car Data in the earlier published interview on this website.

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