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
https://mastodon.ie/@sinabhfuil/112138746226813931

@c_9 one thing I’ve been wondering about for ages is whether or not there are enough materials to make all the batteries we will need. I’ve not really seen it answer to this.