{"id":138435,"date":"2025-03-21T07:55:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T05:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/evs-set-to-save-europe-20-million-tonnes-of-co2-this-year-but-transport-remains-biggest-polluter\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T07:55:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T05:55:21","slug":"evs-set-to-save-europe-20-million-tonnes-of-co2-this-year-but-transport-remains-biggest-polluter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/evs-set-to-save-europe-20-million-tonnes-of-co2-this-year-but-transport-remains-biggest-polluter\/","title":{"rendered":"EVs set to save Europe 20 million tonnes of CO2 this year but transport remains biggest polluter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138435\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>A surge in the uptake of electric cars will save Europe 20 million tonnes of CO2 this year, according to new analysis from campaign group Transport &amp; Environment (T&amp;E). That\u2019s equivalent to the emissions pumped out by eight coal power plants and represents one positive trend within a notoriously difficult to decarbonise sector. Transport is the only sector still producing more emissions than it did in 1990, lagging behind industry, electricity generation, and buildings, as it generates around a third of EU pollution. But T&amp;E\u2019s latest State of European Transport report reveals that emissions are finally falling.<\/p>\n<p>Europe\u2019s transport sector belched out 1.05 billion tonnes of CO2 in 2024 &#8211; down from 1.1 billion tonnes in 2019. That is a 5 per cent drop. The uptake of electric vehicles is largely responsible for this, having risen steeply over the last few years, replacing petrol and diesel powered alternatives. Cars are the biggest transport polluters with a total of 450 megatonnes of CO\u2082 equivalent emissions per year and representing 13 per cent of EU total emissions. Battery electric vehicles (BEVs) are already three times cleaner than petrol cars and this will only improve as the electricity that powers them becomes greener, T&amp;E explains.<\/p>\n<p>Electric cars aren\u2019t the silver bullet to Europe\u2019s pervasive transport problem, however. For one thing, their production phase is still highly polluting. With around 10 million new vehicles sold per year, electric vehicle production (excluding the battery) is responsible for around 50 Mt CO\u2082 emissions. Batteries, aluminium and steel are the three emission hotspots to target, according to T&amp;E, which is urging greater use of green and recycled steel.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2025\/03\/20\/evs-set-to-save-europe-20-million-tonnes-of-co2-this-year-but-transport-remains-biggest-po\">Euronews<\/a><\/p>\n<p><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/evs-set-to-save-europe-20-million-tonnes-of-co2-this-year-but-transport-remains-biggest-polluter\/\">EVs set to save Europe 20 million tonnes of CO2 this year but transport remains biggest polluter<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[703,575,696,2396,597],"class_list":["post-138435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-emissions","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-europe","tag-ev","tag-transport"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}