Study: Battery EVs the 'most reliable' climate mitigation option for passenger cars

Stuart Stone
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EVs repeatedly deliver the lowest carbon footprints under the vast majority of emissions reduction pathways and passenger car use cases, study finds

Battery electric vehicles (BEVs) consistently deliver the lowest carbon footprints among passenger cars across the vast majority of carbon-reduction pathways and use cases assessed under a major new study....

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