page_title: Green vehicle
section_title: Green car rankings
hierarchical_section_title: Green vehicle / Green car rankings
caption_attribution_description: English: This is an image of the FCX Clarity Fuel Cell taken by BBQ Junkie at the 2007 Los Angeles Auto Show, shortly after the introduction of the vehicle on Wednesday November 14th, 2007. This photo is for the en:Honda FCX Clarity article.
context_page_description: A green vehicle, or clean vehicle, or eco-friendly vehicle or environmentally friendly vehicle is a road motor vehicle that produces less harmful impacts to the environment than comparable conventional internal combustion engine vehicles running on gasoline or diesel, or one that uses certain alternative fuels. Presently, in some countries the term is used for any vehicle complying or surpassing the more stringent European emission standards, or California's zero-emissions vehicle standards, or the low-carbon fuel standards enacted in several countries.
  Green vehicles can be powered by alternative fuels and advanced vehicle technologies and include hybrid electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, battery electric vehicles, compressed-air vehicles, hydrogen and fuel-cell vehicles, neat ethanol vehicles, flexible-fuel vehicles, natural gas vehicles, clean diesel vehicles, and some sources also include vehicles using blends of biodiesel and ethanol fuel or gasohol.
context_section_description: Several automobile magazines, motor vehicle specialized publications and environmental groups publish annual rankings or listings of the best green cars of a given year. The following table presents a selection of the annual top pickings.
caption: Honda FCX Clarity hydrogen fuel cell car
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