Holy crap. In the EU, fuel consumption monitoring devices are required on new cars. They studied over 10% of all cars sold in 2021—turns out they use way more fuel, and create way more CO2, than almost anybody thought. Nearly a quarter more. Plug-in Hybrids do poorly too.
This means our projections about getting cars off the road for the climate crisis is hugely undercounting the effects. More rail, more e-bikes, more electric, faster.
#ClimateCrisis #CO2 #TheWarOnCars
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@francis @c_9 It depends on whose report you read and who paid for it. Some came from pretty hawkish think tanks, some from BP and Exxon, and at least one came from Neo Performance Materials last year.