Going Green

The most-popular motor coach models get 5 to 9 miles per gallon. (Some SUV's don't do too much better!) The highest selling Hybrid car gets 60 to 66 miles per gallon. But when you adjust the numbers to account for per-passenger fuel efficiency and the benefits to the environment, the picture looks a little different…

Hybrid Car Motor Coach
Gallons of fuel need to go 100 miles      1.58 (63mpg) 5.4 (6.5mpg)
Typical number of occupied seats 1 55
Per passenger fuel consumption 1.58 .27
Per passenger cost to go 100 miles 4.47 $0.81

(assuming fully loaded vehicle with price of fuel at $3 per gallon)

That means when it comes to fuel used per passenger, a coach is 475% more fuel efficient that the hybrid car, and, when both vehicles are fully loaded, the motor coach still leads the race by 44%!

Coaches are also more efficient per passenger mile than planes and trains. Plus, they go everywhere people want to travel- to entertainment venues, the theatre, vacation destinations, even to work. So the next time you see one person driving a Hybrid car in one lane, and 50 or so people lounging comfortably aboard a Krapf Coach in another, ask yourself, “Who's going greener?”

More reasons to Go Green. Go Coach. Go Krapf:

  • Highway congestion costs US taxpayers $72 billion annual in waster resources and lost productivity.
  • One motor coach can displace as many as 55 passenger cars from crowded highways.
  • By keeping up to 425 million cars off of US roads annually, motor coaches drastically reduce air, ground, water and noise pollution.
  • According to the American Bus Association, motor coaches deliver more than 146 passenger miles per gallon of fuel, and yield more people-moving efficiency per BTU than any other mode of transportation.