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Lifecycle analysis of gas, hybrid and electric cars

Treehugger has a post about a life cycle analysis of carbon emissions for various drive-train types that includes manufacturing and use of the vehicles. The study was originally done by researchers from Seikei University in Tokyo, Japan in 2001. They did a detailed analysis of the energy consumption to manufacture the different types of vehicles, based on the CO2 emissions for each. The battery-powered cars are much more energy intensive to build than gas or hybrid cars, based mostly on the cost of producing the batteries themselves. For the ... Read more →

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