{"id":132854,"date":"2021-12-22T09:22:46","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T17:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/study-finds-electric-vehicles-provide-lower-carbon-emissions-through-additional-channels"},"modified":"2021-12-22T09:22:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T17:22:46","slug":"study-finds-electric-vehicles-provide-lower-carbon-emissions-through-additional-channels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/study-finds-electric-vehicles-provide-lower-carbon-emissions-through-additional-channels","title":{"rendered":"Study finds electric vehicles provide lower carbon emissions through additional channels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-finds-electric-vehicles-provide-lower-carbon-emissions-through-additional-channels.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With new major spending packages investing billions of dollars in electric vehicles in the U.S., some analysts have raised concerns over how green the electric vehicle industry actually is, focusing particularly on indirect emissions caused within the supply chains of the vehicle components and the fuels used to power electricity that charges the vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>But a recent study from the Yale School of the Environment published in <i>Nature Communications<\/i> found that the total indirect emissions from <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/electric+vehicles\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electric vehicles<\/a> pale in comparison to the indirect emissions from fossil fuel-powered vehicles. This is in addition to the direct emissions from combusting <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/fossil+fuels\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">fossil fuels <\/a>\u2014either at the tailpipe for conventional vehicles or at the power plant smokestack for electricity generation\u2014showing electric vehicles have a clear advantage emissions-wise over conventional vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe surprising element was how much lower the emissions of electric vehicles were,\u201d says postdoctoral associate Stephanie Weber. \u201cThe supply chain for combustion vehicles is just so dirty that electric vehicles can\u2019t surpass them, even when you factor in indirect emissions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With new major spending packages investing billions of dollars in electric vehicles in the U.S., some analysts have raised concerns over how green the electric vehicle industry actually is, focusing particularly on indirect emissions caused within the supply chains of the vehicle components and the fuels used to power electricity that charges the vehicles. But [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}