Car As buyers flock to electric SUVs alongside their petrol counterparts, super-sized EVs pose their own environmental challenges.
When it comes to reducing pollution from passenger cars, bigger is the opposite of better. SUVs, Burns 20% more oil on average than mid-size cars. Electric SUVs it also requires larger batteries than other EVs, and experts already warn that we won’t have enough raw materials to meet the rapidly growing demand for lithium-ion batteries.
With this, SUVs In 2022, it surpassed its small peers. Last year, car sales fell by around 0.5% overall, while SUV sales rose 3%, accounting for 46% of global auto sales.
This popularity means more pollution. According to the analysis of the International Energy Agency (IEA), worldwide from SUVs CO2 emissions from carbon dioxide are close to reaching an enormous threshold: about 1 billion tons of carbon dioxide per year. For comparison, that’s almost twice the amount of climate pollution the UK pumped in 2021. Oil demand for the fuel of non-SUV passenger cars remained stable between 2021 and 2022, while global SUV oil consumption increased by 500,000 barrels per day.
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These numbers need to drop drastically to prevent climate change from worsening significantly. Paris climate agreement Achieving its goals requires countries to halve climate pollution by the end of the decade and achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
Transportation is a major source of climate pollution and is responsible for about a quarter of the world’s energy-related greenhouse gas emissions. of the IEA To meet the targets set in the Paris agreement, as previously planned, around 60% of vehicles sold by 2030 would need to be electrified.
More people are buying electric vehicles and sales are up 60% in 2022. And for the first time, all sold last year EVs just over half are electric SUVs created. That’s not surprising given that automakers are adding more and more electric SUVs to their lineup. More than 400 available electric car roughly 55% of the model is SUV.