(ANSA) - ROME, MARCH 03 - The CO2 emissions in the entire life cycle of an electric car (from production to use up to disposal), given the average European electricity mix, are 55% lower than those of a vehicle endothermic of equal weight and power powered by petrol, and 47% lower in the case of a diesel vehicle.
The climate think tank Ecco explains this in a statement, on the occasion of the debate on the European ban on endothermic engines for 2035. Ecco cites a 2020 study edited by Ricardo Energy&Environment for the European Commission on the "Life Cycle Assessment" of the 'electric car.
These differences further increase in a scenario of an increase in electricity generation from renewable sources, adds Ecco: by 2030 the reduction of emissions is 72%, and in a scenario by 2050 compatible with maintaining global warming within 1.5 degrees of pre-industrial levels, the reduction reaches 80%.
Other more recent independent analyzes on the "Life CycleAssessment", conducted by the International Council of CleanTransportation (Icct) in 2021 and by Transport and Environment (T&E) in 2022, reach conclusions very similar to those of Ricardo Energy & Environment.
The three studies essentially deny the widespread fake news according to which the emissions of an electric car over its entire life cycle (including production and disposal, not just in use) would be higher than those of an internal combustion engine car.
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