doenerTesla sales in Europe down 45% in January
https://www.ft.com/content/cdd0b5c8-2703-4fd4-9ebf-26087cac8523
Good, now our (european) politicians should stop forcing companies like Volkswagen, with an incredible history and technological background, giving money to Musk for carbon credits. Use the same money to improve public transportation and the long term impact on CO2 will be better for sure. Not only civil cars are a trivial part of CO2 emissions, but there are many other effective ways to improve things: avoid trucks to move goods, in favor of trains (we have good trains on average) and boats, like 30/40 years ago. Public transportation, as I said. Warming systems... All changes that could have greater effects without destroying our car industry. For reference: Volkswagen has 650k employees. 300k in Germany, 350k outside.
> cars are a trivial part of CO2 emissions
Sadly this isn't true. Not to mention the particulates which VW defrauded everyone about.
VW need to stop their engine division running the company and get with the affordable EV programme.
> Sadly this isn't true.
CO2 emissions from fossil fuels is 38 billion tones in 2023 (https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions)
Oceania: ~0.5 billion tones
Aviation: ~1 billion tones
Africa: ~1.5 billion tones
Europe: ~5 billion tones
America: ~7.2 billion tones
Asia: ~22.5 billion tones
This includes the fossil fuels from the whole industry and not only the civil transportation. Europe constitutes ~13% of total (world) emissions.
How much does the fossile fuel car industry contribute to these numbers? I couldn't find that information.
> How much does the fossile fuel car industry contribute to these numbers? I couldn't find that information.
Let's try to deduce this number.
According to https://www.acea.auto/files/ACEA-report-vehicles-in-use-euro... in 2023 there had been ~294M passenger cars registered (on the road) in EU+EFTA+UK (page nr 4).
Roughly around 93% of those ~294M passenger cars are either petrol or diesel, so ~274M (page nr 14).
According to https://www.acea.auto/figure/average-co2-emissions-from-new-... the average CO2/km consumption for new cars is 110g.
Let's correct this figure so that it also includes the older cars so let's assume that the CO2/km consumption is 130g.
Let the average passenger car distance travel be 15k km a year.
274M cars * 15k km * 130g = 5.343×10¹⁴g = 0.5343 billion tonnes.
So, only 10% of total CO2 emissions from Europe and 0.01% of total CO2 emissions in the world?
Shouldn't that be 1% of emissions in the world? Btw, still more practical to address other stuff. Not that EV are a bad idea, but you can't force such change: the EU plans failed, because people don't have often a viable setup to switch to EV, so it should be made more incremental and together with other infrastructural changes.