{"id":14966,"date":"2023-02-09T08:11:20","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T07:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maair.fr\/?p=14966"},"modified":"2023-05-02T05:14:37","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T03:14:37","slug":"lempreinte-carbone-des-voitures-electriques-les-plus-vendues-en-france-et-en-allemagne-en-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maair.fr\/en\/lempreinte-carbone-des-voitures-electriques-les-plus-vendues-en-france-et-en-allemagne-en-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"The carbon footprint of the best-selling electric cars in France and Germany in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"14966\" class=\"elementor elementor-14966\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-29eaaf6 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"29eaaf6\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b33fc65\" data-id=\"b33fc65\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f56b3cd elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"f56b3cd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 26-05-2024 *\/\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style><h5 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">By Frank Bunte CEO A2MAC1 and Christophe de Charentenay CEO M@Air<\/h5>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d74e554 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d74e554\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 26-05-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">It's not easy to find your way around when you want to switch to an electric car to reduce your carbon footprint. There is much debate about the negative CO2 effect of battery manufacture, the carbon content of electricity depending on the country where you are travelling, the transport of the car from its production plant to its place of sale, etc. To try and guide customers, we have estimated the carbon footprint of the 10 best-selling electric car models in France and Germany. Indeed, even if, from 1 January 2024, manufacturers will have to communicate on the carbon footprint of batteries, no independent comparison applying the same method between models was available until now.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">With the help of data from A2MAC1, a specialist in the technological and economic analysis of cars from all the major global manufacturers for more than 25 years, and by identifying the production sites of the models and battery cells, we were able to reconstruct an estimate of the carbon footprint of each of the best-selling electric cars in 2022 in France and Germany, i.e. a total of 15 models. This estimate does not use the manufacturers' own data and therefore does not commit them.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>What are the results?<\/strong><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Unsurprisingly, the top group of the lowest carbon emitters according to our estimate is made up of small models: Twingo electric and Dacia Spring. If these models are driven in France for 125,000 km, they emit less than 9 tonnes of C02eq over their life cycle.<strong> When it comes to carbon, \"Small is beautiful\".<\/strong><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">At the other end of the scale, the VW ID4, Tesla Model Y and Audi Q8 emit more than 18 tonnes on the same index, i.e. twice as much.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">The hierarchy between models is almost the same if the vehicles are driven in Germany, but the carbon impacts are much higher there: around 15 tonnes for Twingo electric and Dacia Spring, while the large US and German models double the score: 30 tonnes.<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>Estimated carbon impact of the 10 best-selling EV models in France in 2022<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-44434ba elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"44434ba\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 26-05-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=\".svg\"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"457\" src=\"https:\/\/maair.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Sans-titre-en-e1676010727139.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-14986\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maair.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Sans-titre-en-e1676010727139.png 983w, https:\/\/maair.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Sans-titre-en-e1676010727139-300x172.png 300w, https:\/\/maair.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Sans-titre-en-e1676010727139-768x439.png 768w, https:\/\/maair.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Sans-titre-en-e1676010727139-18x10.png 18w, https:\/\/maair.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Sans-titre-en-e1676010727139-800x457.png 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1969cce elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1969cce\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>Reading: the Peugeot e208 emits between 12 and 13 tonnes of CO2eq for 125,000 km of use (including manufacture and end of life) and reduces its CO2eq emissions<\/strong> <strong>by 15% per year over 10 years compared with a Peugeot 208 combustion engine. Detailed results and calculation method <a style=\"color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/maair.fr\/en\/cross-oem-lca-for-ev-vehicles-method-applied-by-a2mac1-and-mair-for-the-2022-project\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/span><\/a><\/strong><strong>\u00a0and on <a style=\"color: #ffffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.a2mac1.com\">www.a2mac1.com<\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>But if I choose to replace my combustion car at the end of its life with an electric car, how much will I reduce my CO2 emissions?<\/strong><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">To answer this question, we have estimated the carbon impact of an equivalent internal combustion car using the same method: For example, we compare a combustion Peugeot 208 with an electric Peugeot e208.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Good news <strong>for users in France<\/strong> : If the motorist drives in France(1) and remains in the same category of vehicle, all transfers from internal combustion to electric vehicles not only show a reduction but, even better, <strong>the motorist succeeds in accelerating the reduction in emissions well beyond the -5% of emissions per year for the next 10 years<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">The famous -5% per year that would allow us to keep the increase in global temperature below 2\u00b0C according to the IPCC forecasts. In the race for speed imposed on us by climate change, electric cars have their place, provided of course that they do not increase their annual distances and remain in the same category of vehicle.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Drivers in Germany will have a more constrained choice if they want to tick the -5% per year box and thus validate their climate contract in the field of mobility. For example, a BMW 3 Series diesel customer will not be able to reach this target by switching to a Tesla Model 3, but will have to choose an electric Opel Corsa or a Zoe. But if he is a more intensive driver: 17500 kms per year instead of 12500 Kms, his switch to electric in the same range (Tesla Model 3) will allow him to reduce his carbon impact by more than 5%.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">The calculations confirm the common sense:  Heavy models with high maximum speed are high carbon emitters even with electric propulsion pushed to its extremes with batteries with masses of over 700 kg!<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">While customers have a role to play in the low-carbon transition through their choice of vehicle, car manufacturers also have many opportunities to win the climate competition through design and manufacture.  For example, for long distances, favouring fast charging rather than increasing battery capacity: an optimum is to be sought for comfortable motorway journeys with reasonably sized batteries. But also optimise energy losses linked to charging: measurements show significant differences between models, with up to 10% of Kwh 'evaporating' between the socket and the battery. Or to play cleverly with the electricity network by installing intelligent recharging systems that transform the batteries into mini-dams called to pass the network's consumption peaks.  Finally, reducing the mass of vehicles is often a winning bet for reducing the carbon footprint.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>So many innovations that will see the light of day if the climate labels come to indicate the vehicles that emit the least CO2 and if customers commit themselves to this race for the climate: It is won by travelling light and... slower.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">(1) Assumption of 12,500 kms per year for 10 years. The more the annual distance travelled increases, the more the interest of switching to electric rather than staying with a combustion engine increases from a carbon point of view.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Par Frank Bunte CEO A2MAC1 et Christophe de Charentenay CEO M@Air Pas facile de s\u2019y retrouver lorsqu\u2019on veut passer \u00e0 la voiture \u00e9lectrique pour r\u00e9duire son empreinte carbone. Les d\u00e9bats vont bon train mettant en avant l\u2019effet CO2 n\u00e9gatif de la fabrication de la batterie, le contenu carbone de l\u2019\u00e9lectricit\u00e9 selon le pays o\u00f9 on [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-voiture-electrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maair.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maair.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maair.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maair.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maair.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14966"}],"version-history":[{"count":68,"href":"https:\/\/maair.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16469,"href":"https:\/\/maair.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14966\/revisions\/16469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maair.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maair.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maair.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}