Emission Factor

Transport - passenger - car - fleet average

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Emission factor summary

The activity generating the emissions is transport, passenger, car, fleet average. The Reference Product is transport, passenger, car, fleet average. 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 Reference Product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.12/cutoff/dataset/8259/documentation

PropertyValue
NameTransport - passenger - car - fleet average
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
source_specific
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR5, AR6
Data Versioning
  • Status: Current

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
5bdd16b5-9016-45a4-be53-103a74c02283
Code Snippet
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