Eco-friendly Motorcycles For A Greener Environment

Motorcycles represent style, fashion and masculine oomph. They are a craze among the youth - specially boys. They are loved for their speed and maneuverability. Many international motorcycle-manufacturing companies come out with different types of variants and model every year to keep the people interested.

There are many benefits of driving a motorcycle. The first and foremost is the low cost. Although in today's world there are many bikes that are even costlier than cars, but all in all most of the bikes are light on your wallet. Next is the ease of handling them, they are easily maneuverable in city congestion and traffic. They have high mileage so even the running cost is lower than a car. With their low maintenance cost and low space requirement, they have become a hot selling property among the middle-income group people.

Certainly, the benefits of a motorcycle are manifold but there are harms also. The testing norms for motorcycles are already very relaxed. They require a motorcycle to be tested at lower speeds that generates less pollution. However, the truth is that the motorcycles cause more pollution than any average car, mini-truck or any sports utility vehicle. The motorcycles are made lightweight and compact to extract the maximum fuel-efficiency. In this quest to extract, maximum fuel-efficiency motorcycles emit a lot of hydrocarbons and nitrogenous compounds. These compounds and gases form SMOG. Smog is smoke + fog. It causes air pollution, which is main root cause of asthma, bronchitis and other breathing diseases.

Now here comes the concept of eco-friendly motorcycles into the picture. Eco-friendly motorcycles are the bikes that reduce the emissions as well as the carbon footprint of the motorcycles. Just like cars that run on alternative car fuels, these bikes run on eco-fuels. They run on alternate fuelling options. Most of them are hybrid that can run on both fossil fuels as well as the alternate fuels. They too have the same compact engine, looks, style and lightweight. Only they differ in from the normal motorcycles available currently in the market are their emissions.

The eco-friendly motorcycles use the alternate fuels such as bio-diesel, bio-ethanol or natural gas. The natural gas has to be compressed before use. The natural gas is one of the most viable options as research has proved that we have ample reserves of natural gas below the earth crust for few hundred years. Other alternate fuel options are Hydrogen gas because of it use in propelling rockets. Hydrogen is an excellent lightweight fuel. In addition, it is present in abundance. Hydrogen fuel cells are also being developed to be used in eco-friendly motorcycles.

Eco-friendly motorcycles can help improve the quality of our environment. Reduction in emission from motorcycles will reduce the smog forming gases. It will in turn lower the rising cases of asthma, bronchitis and other breathing problems. They will also help save the fossil fuels as well as will be instrumental in lowering the rising oil prices. The centralization of international politics around the oil will also be withheld. The focus will then move over to other important issues. Thus, eco-friendly motorcycles hold the future of transport and environment.