Damn, we've accidentally leaked our super secret plans for a fuel-less car. Oh well, now you know what to expect, make sure to check regularly on our website ;)

More seriously, how do you calculate the Co2 for EVs? It seems like different power sources used at different times would make calculations like yours almost impossible, since you would need to know when the vehicle was charged and the mix of power sources at the time.

I have a friend who works for the local power company. He told me that at off peak times, our power is almost entirely green. However, at peak times, they use dirty natural gas or coal peaker plants. Even though I don't have time-of-use metered power, I make sure to always charge in the middle of the night for this reason.

Yes, your assumption is correct, we actually account for the means of electricity production, as well as the car production process emissions related to building a single electric vehicle. It's a great idea to be able to switch those overhead emission calculations if you wanted to, we'll get on that!

It's great you're taking these "external" variables into account. To bandwagon on the environmental costs of car production, it would be cool to see motorcycles added to the lineup. A lot of motorcycles are lax on emissions control so it would be very interesting to see how they compare to hybrids and electrics.

We've actually considered adding it to the list, but as the information we found was either very scarce, unverifiable or unofficial, so we had to make the choice to leave it out for the time being. It's on our task list though, that's for the good idea!

> as the car production process emissions related to building a single electric vehicle

Do you likewise take in to account the production process emissions for non-electric vehicles?

I find it a bit scary that I should apparently keep with my diesel rather than look at electric. Should I really?

it really depends on how much you drive and how co2 intensive the power you use is (which depends not only on your locale but also the time when you charge your car typically). However one thing in the overhead costs which is often ignored is that a used car battery which might not be suited for a car anymore because of 20-30% capacity loss after a few years can be reused in stationary battery systems, so over the full lifetime of the battery the overhead costs in most calculations are overexaggerated.

Thanks @GrumpyNI, I'm currently in Amsterdam, you guys sure as hell have a lot of Teslas :) Happy we've hit the mark, although our calculations are based on estimations, we've done our best to keep it as relevant as possible.

Hi there,

We at BetaPeak (https://betapeak.com) are a small team of dedicated developers with passion for side projects and positive social change. We're located in Bulgaria, which currently has the worst air quality in all of Europe, so this led us to think - we sure as hell are not the only ones with that problem, there must be thousands of cities around the globe that breathe dirty air, we definitely need to raise some awareness.

So in partnership with the awesome guys at Oblik Studio (http://oblik.works/), this led us to build Mission Emission, a tool to help you calculate your car emissions and get tips on how to travel more eco-friendly. Our bet is on simplicity, nice and clean UX and informative and beautiful results page, to help punch in the main idea - we need to ditch petrol/diesel cars!

We'd love to know what you love, what you hate, what you "meh" about the tool, and obviously we're ready to implement any cool ideas you may have on how to make this tool even cooler and more engaging.

Thanks!

Yasen

Can't speak for all metric users, but I found "mt" for metric tonnes just confusing; the standard abbreviation is just "t".

Yes, that's easily confused with the imperial ton, but I think that's a less important problem.

I agree. I thought this was megatons and thought “oh wow those emissions seems a bit high.” Took me a minute to see my mistake.

I feel like a lot of confusion could be bypassed entirely by using megagrams (Mg) instead.

The only non ambiguous ways to use metric ton are 'metric ton' and 'tonne'. I think its best to evade the use altogether. I propose 1234kg instead of 1.2t.

The other thing is the difference between a metric and US ton is only 10%. So you don't lose any sense of scale if you confuse the two.

The "metric ton" is really just the megagram, with standard abbreviation Mg.

Oh, had no idea that was what mt meant. I feel kg would be a better anyway.

Other than that, neat!

This is probably just me being ignorant, but I had to look up whether or not petrol was standard gasoline.

I don't think it is ignorance, just colloquial terminology coming into play.

I am curious though, is the USA the only place that calls it 'gas'? I've lived and travelled through most places in Oceania, Asia and Europe and almost everywhere else it is called 'petrol' and places that serve it are called 'petrol stations'. To me 'gas' is an entirely separate product, viz LPG gas, which a lot of taxis etc. use at the moment.

Yes, indeed, in Eastern Europe we refer to LPG as gas, and petrol as, well, petrol :)

Apparently it's common in all of North America.

Personally, I think "motor spirit" is a kickass name for it.

I prefer the term "motor scotch".

For the units, do you mean US Customary or do you really mean Imperial? The gallons are very different.

There is even a difference in miles if you want to be picky, with the US using statute miles in some states and international miles in other states. The international mile is 1.609344 km, and the statute mile is about 1.6093472 km. This isn't a huge difference.

Given that's a difference in the sixth significant figure, it's probably not even a rounding error for these calculations.

Just beautiful! Also, hey balkan neighbor :) [greek in CA]

Hey Greece!

Yup, that's what I thought as well. It's a nice OSS package though.

Hi guys!

I'm Yasen, one of the people behind CryptoStandardizer. It is a side project which was born from a pain I had on a daily basis while working with a few of my last clients.

As a web developer I see a trend of websites wanting to stay relevant by integrating crypto-related information and news on their pages and that's what my clients wanted to do as well. The task was simple at first sight - get crypto coins data from a few exchanges and let's unify it so it's easy to consume by our clients. It wasn't long before I came to realize there are a staggering number of exchanges, each using their own coin symbols (one would use DSH for Dash, while others would use DASH, for example).

CryptoStandardizer is exactly what it sounds like - it's an API that allows you to easily standardize crypto coin symbols across 100+ exchanges, make your system as stable as possible and as an added bonus it gets rid of your headache!

It's a work in progress, I'd love to know what you guys think of the project and I'll be more than happy to get ideas on how to make the service an even more enjoyable experience.

In recent weeks I've been focused on making the API as intuitive and as elegant as possible - I'd really love feedback on the landing page and service - all comments are welcome!