Title photo: Nissan Leaf battery compartment
In 2023, 24% of all carbon dioxide emissions came from transport and 74.5% of that comes from road transport. Looking at Figure 1 simply enhances my already acute feelings of guilt. I've tried to calculate the number of miles I've driven, flown, trained, ferried in my fifty-one adult years and was horrified to discover that I've circled the Earth multiple times. That's not something I'm proud of given the carbon emissions data in Fig. 2
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Flights: London Heathrow to Edinburgh = domestic (530km); London to Berlin (900km) = short haul; London to New York (5,500km) = long haul.
Cutting carbon emissions in the transport sector is one of the toughest climate change challenges we face. But it must be done and fast. In 2020, 64% of global oil production was consumed by transport. Click on the links below to discover the current progress in electrification of different types of transport.
Title photo by Bengt Oberger - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0,