{"id":559106,"date":"2023-03-01T09:06:06","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T03:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=559106"},"modified":"2023-03-01T09:37:45","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T04:07:45","slug":"suv-growth-weighs-on-emissions-batteries-international-energy-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/suv-growth-weighs-on-emissions-batteries-international-energy-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"SUV growth weighs on emissions, batteries: International energy agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever bigger cars pose a growing problem for the environment because they produce more greenhouse gas emissions and need larger batteries than their smaller cousins, according to the International Energy Agency.<\/p>\n<p>The Paris-based body suggested Monday that it&#8217;s time for the car industry to downsize its vehicles, citing data that showed the world&#8217;s 330 million sports utility vehicles, or SUVs, pumped out almost 1 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s more than the annual emissions of an industrial nation like Germany.<\/p>\n<p>The shift towards heavier and less fuel-efficient conventional vehicles increases growth in both oil demand and CO2 emissions,&#8221; the agency said, noting that SUVs consume about a fifth more gasoline than an average medium-sized car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever bigger cars pose a growing problem for the environment because they produce more greenhouse gas emissions and need larger batteries than their smaller cousins, according to the International Energy Agency. The Paris-based body suggested Monday that it&#8217;s time for the car industry to downsize its vehicles, citing data that showed the world&#8217;s 330 million sports utility vehicles, or SUVs, pumped out almost 1 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2022. That&#8217;s more than the annual emissions of an industrial nation like Germany. The shift towards heavier and less fuel-efficient conventional vehicles increases growth in both oil demand and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}