Emission Factor

Transport - passenger - car with internal combustion engine - fleet average (market for)

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Emission factor summary

The activity generating the emissions is market for transport, passenger, car with internal combustion engine, fleet average. The Reference Product is transport, passenger, car with internal combustion engine, fleet average. This is delivering the service of average transportation of passenger/s across one kilometre (km). This service only considers the transportation of passengers. The dataset takes into account 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. The average passenger load factor is considered to in total 97.2 kg. The dry weight of the vehicle is considered to be 1200 kg and its lifetime is 150000 km. A user that wish to model a different average load factor should modify this product or its producing activity. The Reference Product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is market activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.12/cutoff/dataset/341/documentation

PropertyValue
NameTransport - passenger - car with internal combustion engine - fleet average (market for)
SectorTransport
CategoryVehicles
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.12
Region
Unit Type
Year
2012
Year Released
2025
Emission Factor
  • CO2e
    kg/km
Scopes3.6, 3.7
LCA Activity
cradle_to_consumer
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR5, AR6
Data Versioning
  • Status: Current

API Reference

Activity ID
passenger_vehicle-vehicle_type_transport_passenger_car_with_internal_combustion_engine_market_for_transport_passenger_car_with_internal_combustion_engine-fuel_source_petrol_diesel_natural_gas-engine_size_na-vehicle_age_na-vehicle_weight_na
UUID
4309ef1f-78f7-48cf-97bc-5125a0543694
Code Snippet
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