Ricardo study finds electric and hybrid cars have a higher carbon footprint during production than conventional vehicles, but still offer a lower footprint over the full life cycle
Green Car Congress
JUNE 8, 2011
This work dispels the myth that low carbon vehicles simply displace emissions from the exhaust to other sources. For a current standard mid-sized gasoline ICE (internal combustion engine) vehicle, the embedded carbon in production will be around 5.6tCO 2 e, around three quarters of which is the steel in the vehicle glider. production.
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