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What is the most successful car category of last decade? #Electricvehicle ??....? Not yet... The SUV! ?? This is the most surprising #energy finding of last year for me. Colleagues from IEA’ s WEO team made a wonderful #job to identify a truly blind spot that is having huge implications for #climate and energy consumption. The chart shows the share of SUVs in total car #sales over last decade. And it is clear that: A) such share has doubled at global level; B) the trend is common in developed #economy and emerging ones What this means? Few impressive numbers: ??today there are about 200 million SUVs in the #world (for comparison, #EVs are probably about 7 million in total..) ??SUVs covered ALL the 3.3 mb/d #oil demand growth from cars in the decade ??SUVs alone are the 2nd largest source of global CO2 emissions growth since 2010 after the #power sector While 175 models of Electric cars are announced to be in the market in 2020 and Tesla unveiled very encouraging numbers on its total 2019 sales, what strikes me is that the role of #consumers in the energy transition becomes crystal-clear and how our choices are set to play a big contribution on our planet #future and destiny. No excuses! #transportation #technology #data #greentech #business #climate
Alessandro Blasi I have written an article on just this topic. The secret to the SUV boom was emotional marketing, and it can still be adopted for EV sales. The secret to EV Sales: Emotional Marketing https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/secret-ev-sales-emotional-marketing-salman-hussain
There's a subtle irony here. But let's hold back on the emissions issues with SUVs. I'm pretty sure the path to all-electric will come en masse to the SUV market soon.
Interested to know the source of this. Surely HGVs number more than SUVs and are a much bigger source of CO2 emissions?
I thought vehicles account for 17% of global emissions (creation and use) .. Are we just making up numbers?? To be extreme
Alessandro Blasi?indeed very interesting findings.? However we now have the solution to adress this challenge - the only think missing is the political will. https://www.strategie.gouv.fr/english-articles/how-can-we-now-reduce-co2-emissions-cars I offered your collegues from the IEA to present those solutions but I have not heard back from them yet. I you are interested, I am more than happy to come and present it to you and Fatih Birol?if he is interested.
[[ SUVs alone are the 2nd largest source of global CO2 emissions growth since 2010 after the #power sector]] Can you share the data?? Even so, the numbers are significant, I think cows emit more CO2 than SUVs. I think that agriculture will beat transportation in CO2 emissions by far. Assume 20 Kg of CO2 per day per SUV and 6 Kg of CO2 per day per cow. One Billion cows beat the SUV emissions. The difference between an SUV and a regular passenger vehicle around one cow per day per SUV.? But if we really want to discuss unnecessary exponential growth of CO2 emissions we should discuss gas flaring, If flared gas could be converted into energy at a miserable 30% efficiency (run a small capstone turbine generator) we could harvest 3 GWh per day and the reduction of 1.3 KtCO2 per day.?
Crystal clear analysis!
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5 年Data can be fickle and analysis can be misleading. Consider the data from the original article, see link below. Buying SUV's instead of mid-size vehicles seems to actually be the 6th largest source of the increased global CO2 emissions, at +96 MT CO2 (see explanation below). This accounts for only 0.3% of the 3300 MT CO2 produced globally, 3.4% of the total global CO2 increase last 10 years and, comparatively, only a 6.8% of the 1405 MT CO2 increase in the #1 largest source of global CO2 emissions in the attached article: Power (see attachement). So, I guess, *my* most surprising #energy finding of last year is why we are talking about SUV sales and not focussing on the way we globally generate and consume Power. Explanation: SUV's consume a quarter more energy than mid-size vehicles. If the SUV's had been mid-size vehicles they would account for 544*0.75= 408 MT CO2. Buying SUVs instead of mid-size vehicles accounts for a 544-408= 96 MT CO2 increase in global emissions, which means that SUVs are the 6th largest source of global emissions. Btw, I don't own a SUV. Original article: https://www.iea.org/commentaries/growing-preference-for-suvs-challenges-emissions-reductions-in-passenger-car-market