Emission Factor

Transport - passenger car (transport - passenger car)

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Emission factor summary

Emissions generated by the activity within the product supply chain as described in ecoinvent v3.8. This is delivering the service of average transportation of one passenger across one kilometre (km). This service only considers the transportation of passengers. The dataset takes into account internal combustion engines and electric cars from different car classes (EURO 3, EURO 4 and EURO 5). The vehicle is an average of the different car sizes (small, medium and large) and fuel types (petrol, diesel and natural gas) for each EURO category. For the electric car, it takes into account a medium size electric car. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. The reference product amount is 1.

PropertyValue
NameTransport - passenger car (transport - passenger car)
SectorTransport
CategoryVehicles
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.8
Region
Unit Type
Year
2012
Year Released
2021
Emission Factor
  • CO2e0000kg/km
LCA Activity
Refer to source
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR4, AR5
Data Versioning
  • Status: Replaced
  • Replaced in: 11Version log
  • Replaced by: bc6300e2-f469-4caf-834b-b24c0fdf9430

API Reference

Activity ID
passenger_vehicle-vehicle_type_transport_passenger_car_transport_passenger_car-fuel_source_petrol_diesel__natural_gas-engine_size_na-vehicle_age_na-vehicle_weight_na
UUID
39f6d3ff-71bc-41cd-a5e0-503b6f9e5784_648bdb63-6ff5-45e5-bcb4-411296a22c3d
Code Snippet
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