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Ireland: existing electric vehicle technologies could seriously reduce CO2 emissions
"Replacement of 10% of cars, vans and buses in Ireland with currently available models of hybrid and battery electric vehicles could reduce national CO2 emissions by 0.35 million tonnes annually." That would be 3.5% of total road transport emissions.
This is "according to a study on the Costs and Benefits of the use of Hybrid Electric Vehicles and Battery Electric Vehicles in Ireland, conducted by Sustainable Energy Ireland (SEI)", Green Car Congress writes.
"The report found that efficiency improvements for adopting currently available hybrid and battery electric vehicles to replace conventional vehicles are greatest for vans, cars and buses in urban service."
Read more findings and recommendations in the full article, that can be found here.
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