Increasing sustainable energy in Europe makes the electric vehicle battery significantly cleaner through its life cycles compared to fuel-engine cars, according to a new International Clean Transport Council report.
New Bevs will produce 73 percent less CO2 emissions than gasoline vehicles, ICCT said in a July 9th report. This figure is 24 percent better than the 2021 assessment of the group.
In addition to taking advantage of renewable energy for charging and production, Bev also became more efficient, said Martha Negroi, an ICCT researcher.
“Europe’s electric cars in Europe are becoming faster than we expected, and we are superior to all other technologies, including hybrids and hybrids for plugins,” Negroi said in a message.
In contrast, combustion-based vehicles, including complete hybrids and plugins, have only become slightly cleaner in recent years, the group said. Hybrids have life cycle emissions that are 20 percent lower than gasoline models, while PHEV emissions are 30 percent lower.
“When it works on the EU’s average fuel and electricity mixture, only Bev offers a large -scale reduction in greenhouse gas cycle greenhouse gas emissions,” the report said, citing greenhouse gas emissions.
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The ICCT survey looks at the characteristics of weighted sales of compact cars sold in the EU in 2023 and has taken the life cycle of 20 years.
Renewable energy such as solar energy and wind is expected to draw up 56 percent of the mixture in Europe, a profit of 18 percent from 2020 and can be 86 percent to 2045, ICCT said, citing European Union data.
The life cycle evaluation offers a broader measurement than pipe emissions
A life cycle assessment is a way of measuring the carbon footprint of a car, from extracting raw materials, producing components, producing, energy consumption (including how energy is produced) and disposal or recycling of the end of life.
Proponents say it is more accurate than current emission standards that focus on tail emissions, while critics say life cycle data can be selectively manipulated.
Earlier studies to evaluate the life cycle “repeatedly show that the electric vehicles of the battery eliminate PG emissions and are the most promising way to quickly reduce life cycle emissions,” ICCT said, acknowledging that “given different surrounds and non-compliant methodological elections.
EV critics, for example, say that battery production emissions are often so high that they cannot be compensated by zero tubes. In his report, ICCT acknowledged this claim, but said this “debt of emissions” could be offset after 17,000 km of driving.
Currently, the European Commission and the Economic Committee of the United Nations (UNECE) are working to harmonize the measurements of the life cycle assessment. Automobile manufacturers will be able to voluntarily report the life cycle of their vehicles starting next year using the Commission methodology.
The gasoline car has a 235 grams of CO2 life cycle on KM based on the average European electricity network (if a current mixture of renewable and non -refundable energy is accepted) while EV emissions are 63 g, ICCT said (See the diagram above)S Port hybrid emissions are 163 g/km, while full hybrids are 188 g/km.
The report claims that the emissions of the life cycle of electric cars are often overestimated as they are based on a static electrical network, instead of suggesting that the renewable energy rate will continue to increase.
In addition, the shorter assumption of the life cycle (less than 20 years) also tends to be in a disadvantage, as well as the discrepancy between tested and in the real world use-for example, car monitoring has found that PHEV emissions are up to 3.5 times higher than the tested ones, as owners do not regularly charge the batteries.
Bevs wins in maintenance emissions due to simplicity, exploring discovered
If these factors are not taken into account, ICCT said, Life Cycle emissions can be up to 64 percent higher. “Under such conditions, it seems that Bevs have emission levels comparable to PHEVS,” the report said.
Other findings from the study:
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Production and recycling emissions are approximately equivalent to the types of fuels ranging from 6.5 metric tonnes for bev to 7.9 tonnes for PHEV (due to their complexity).
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The battery production had emissions of 3.9 tonnes of CO2 for bev and 1.0 tonnes for PHEV.
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Maintenance: Bev had 4 g/km emissions (to a large extent because they needed less consumables, such as candles or belts), while diesel maintenance was 7 g/km (partly due to the need for exhaust gas) and gasoline cars had 6 g/km support.
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