Fig. 4: Carbon footprint differences of vehicles, electricity, diesel, and hydrogen. | Communications Earth & Environment

Fig. 4: Carbon footprint differences of vehicles, electricity, diesel, and hydrogen.

From: Battery electric vehicles show the lowest carbon footprints among passenger cars across 1.5–3.0 °C energy decarbonisation pathways

Fig. 4

a The regional carbon footprint percentage difference between BEV and HEV in different regions using typical LCA and pLCA approaches with the “Ambitious ( < 2 °C)” future scenario. This assumes Medium SUV vehicles have a 15-year lifetime and 200,000 km total mileage. Note that the typical EEU case has a near 0% difference and is not a missing data point. b–d show the regional electricity, diesel and hydrogen production carbon footprints for 2025 and the average carbon footprint between 2025 and 2040 in the “Ambitious ( < 2 °C)” future scenario.

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