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Green Electricity Key to Eliminating Transportation CO 2
Worldwide Europe
Units: PWh=Peta Watt hours
Source is DNV report: Energy Transition Outlook 2022
Figure 3: Grid-connected electricity generation
Worldwide Europe
Units: Gt=Giga tons
Source is DNV report: Energy Transition Outlook 2022
Figure 4: Energy-related CO 2 emissions by sector
pandemic-related drop in 2020. Current CO 2 emissions are estimated renewable and inexpensive electricity to create carbon-neutral fuels.
at 3 Gt CO 2 /year and are seen declining steadily to below The opportunities for the electronics industry—from chips to systems
0.7 Gt CO 2 /year by 2050, or a 76% drop. Transportation looks to remain and software—will be excellent for decades.
the largest CO 2 -emitting segment in 2050, even with a successful tran- Europe is at the forefront of the transition to low-carbon energy.
sition to electrification. According to the DNV report, Europe’s energy-related CO 2 emissions
per capita averaged 5.4 tons per year in 2020 but will fall to
STEPPING UP TO THE CHALLENGE 1.2 tons annually in 2050, a drop of 77%. By comparison, CO 2 per capita
The pressure is on to greatly reduce emissions in all transportation emissions in the U.S. and Canada averaged 13.6 tons in 2020, with a
segments. BEVs are a good solution but can lower the emissions only in projected decline to 3.7 tons in 2050. Of the 10 regions covered in the
some transportation segments. DNV report, only Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to have lower per
The good news is that the emissions source in an ICE system is not capita emissions in 2050 than Europe. ■
the engine itself but the fuel—specifically, oil-based fuel. The solution
is therefore to substitute low-carbon fuel for oil-based fuel in trans- Egil Juliussen is a principal analyst at VSI Labs and a contributing
portation segments that cannot transition to BEVs. The technologies writer for EE Times Europe. He was previously a director of research at
for doing so are on the way but will require tremendous amounts of IHS Automotive (now S&P Global Mobility).
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