Electric vehicles outperform gasoline cars in lifetime environmental impact (IMAGE)

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Electric vehicles outperform gasoline cars in lifetime environmental impact

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The life cycle-based CO2 emissions from four technology-based categories of light-duty vehicles in GCAM/GLIMPSE from sales of new vehicles in 2030, (a) during lifetime, assumed to be 18 years (b) during first year (c) shows when the emissions from fossil fuel ICE surpasses BEV, plotted for first six years.

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Sadavarte et al., 2025, PLOS Climate, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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