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Transportation accounts for a third of American CO2 generation and is the largest non-industrial source of American GHG emissions. We need to make dents here th
by Karrot_Kream 4y ago
Transportation accounts for a third of American CO2 generation and is the largest non-industrial source of American GHG emissions. We need to make dents here through every manner possible, including electrifying the existing modeshare, while promoting much more energy efficient modeshares like cycling and transit.
- seydor 4y agoPassenger car emissions are ~8% of total CO2. Trucks etc are easier to greenify, replace with trains etc.
- Karrot_Kream 4y agoPassenger cars are 33% of transport-related GHGs, the single largest category for transportation-related GHGs. Transportation-related GHGs is the largest category of GHGs in the whole pie for the US and comprises 27% of US GHGs. 33% of 27% is 8.9%. Light-duty trucks are 17.2% of transportation-related GHGs, so 4.6% of overall US GHGs. The US already has a heavily used freight-rail network. [1]: https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/fast-facts-transportation-greenhouse-gas-emissions https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/fast-facts-transportation-... [2]: https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyPDF.cgi?Dockey=P10153PC.pdf https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyPDF.cgi?Dockey=P10153PC.pdf
- dymk 4y agoElectric trucks are in the works too