Lifecycle carbon dioxide (CO2) modelling of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) typically relies on the critical assumption that the battery lasts the lifetime of the vehicle, which is around 14 years.
Are cars sinful?
The even more hidden life of tyres...
The inevitability of hybridisation?
The rise of unregulated exhaust pollutants
What’s in a tyre?
Euro 8: Rethinking Vehicle Emissions Fundamentally
From performance to experience
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse
Letting the cat out of the bag: The great plug-in hybrid subsidy
In a recent newsletter, we set out Schrödinger’s Car, drawing a parallel with the famous Schrödinger’s Cat thought experiment, where a cat in a box is both dead and alive until the box is opened.
Side effects may include...
Schrödinger’s Car
Eight principles of decarbonisation
What's the problem with biofuels?
Could vehicle automation make carbon dioxide emissions and air quality worse?
What else is coming out of our tailpipes?
Tightening tailpipe regulations is a natural impulse in a post-Dieselgate world. However, we are in danger of over-regulating familiar, easy-to-measure emissions such as CO2 and NOx while ignoring a wide range of other, potentially harmful substances that can now be measured but have previously been ignored.