International Energy Agency says SUVs pose environmental issues, produce more greenhouse gas emissions

Ever bigger cars airs a increasing problem for nan situation because they nutrient much greenhouse state emissions and request larger batteries than their smaller cousins, according to nan International Energy Agency.

The Paris-based assemblage suggested Monday that it’s clip for nan car manufacture to downsize its vehicles, citing information that showed nan world’s 330 cardinal sports inferior vehicles, aliases SUVs, pumped retired almost 1 cardinal metric tons of c dioxide successful 2022.

That’s much than nan yearly emissions of an business nation for illustration Germany.

"The displacement towards heavier and little fuel-efficient accepted vehicles increases maturation successful some lipid request and CO2 emissions," nan agency said, noting that SUVs devour astir a 5th much gasoline than an mean medium-sized car.

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"Between 2021 and 2022, lipid usage successful accepted cars, excluding SUVs, remained astir nan same, but nan lipid depletion of SUVs globally accrued by 500,000 barrels per day, accounting for one-third of nan full maturation successful lipid demand," it said.

Cars springiness disconnected exhaust fumes successful Frankfurt, Germany, connected Feb. 27, 2023. Bigger cars airs a increasing problem for nan situation because they nutrient much greenhouse state emissions. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

And while accepted conveyance income slowed somewhat successful 2022, by about 1 cardinal SUVs and 1 cardinal smaller cars, income of electrical vehicles almost doubled to a grounds of much than 10 million. For nan first time, electrical SUVs outpaced electrical non-SUVs, astatine 5.5 cardinal compared to 5.3 million.

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Electric SUVs require larger batteries than smaller cars, nan agency noted.

"A increasing electrical SUV marketplace would enforce further unit connected artillery proviso chains and further summation request for nan captious minerals needed to make nan batteries," it said.

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The IEA urged policymakers and manufacturers to reside nan rumor and suggested 3 imaginable actions: "Downsizing of nan mean car size; expanding artillery swapping; and investing successful innovative artillery technologies."