[ymslavov]

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

[sonofgod]

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.

[mveety]

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.

[yellowapple]

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

[navane]

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.

[Gibbon1]

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.

[souprock]

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

[tjoff]

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

Other than that, neat!

[izzydata]

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

[cyberferret]

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.

[ymslavov]

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

[yellowapple]

Apparently it's common in all of North America.

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

[craftyguy]

I prefer the term "motor scotch".

[tropo]

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.

[sonofgod]

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

[aloukissas]

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

[ymslavov]

Hey Greece!