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Environment & Energy

usonian

(19,129 posts) Sat Jun 14, 2025, 01:22 PM Jun 14

Emissions Test: Car vs. Truck vs. Leaf Blower (Edmunds) [View all]

You can guess where this is going, but no spoilers. They have the receipts from the fancy AAA testing lab.

https://www.edmunds.com/car-reviews/features/emissions-test-car-vs-truck-vs-leaf-blower.html

It would have been easy to load this test in favor of the vehicles by hand-picking the cleanest combustion-powered vehicle we could find. No, only the biggest, baddest truck will do, and they don't come much bigger or badder than the 2011 Ford F-150 SVT Raptor Crew Cab. Acting as a counterweight in perception to this pickup is our long-term 2012 Fiat 500.

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Emissions Test: Car vs. Truck vs. Leaf Blower (Edmunds) [View all] usonian Jun 14 OP

No Catalytic converters on the leaf blowers? pwb Jun 14 #1

Lol! It would skyrocket the cost of one. usonian Jun 14 #2

Lost in this discussion is Carbon Dioxide OKIsItJustMe Jun 14 #6

All my power tools are electric. usonian Jun 14 #7

2011 article? flvegan Jun 14 #3

Perhaps. I can't find a date on it. Does that matter? OKIsItJustMe Jun 14 #5

Offers some context. flvegan Jun 14 #8

I share your suspicion (i.e. that vehicle "emissions" have improved in the years since then) OKIsItJustMe Jun 14 #10

Speaking only for myself flvegan Jun 14 #12

Some years back, my (elderly) father got tired of fighting with his old gas lawn mower and wanted an electric OKIsItJustMe Jun 14 #13

Gas leaf blowers are banned in my area for air quality reasons. RockRaven Jun 14 #4

I always wondered . . . . hatrack Jun 14 #9

Yeah, but do you do it every week? OKIsItJustMe Jun 14 #11

That's interesting. I have a cordless electric mower with which I mow the leaves for mulch. NNadir Jun 15 #14

There have been advancements made in outdoor power equipment motors. Two ways are scavenging and stratification. taxi Jun 15 #15