ArticleNature communications2026
Real-world mileage and survival of electric vehicles in Britain and implications for lifecycle emissions.
Article in Nature communications, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
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- Real-world mileage and survival of electric vehicles in Britain and implications for lifecycle emissions.Nature communications · 2026Article
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Abstract
Battery electric vehicles (BEVs) are typically estimated to have lower attributional lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions than conventional internal combustion engine vehicles. These estimates rely upon lower usage emissions outweighing higher manufacturing emissions, but limited data on electric vehicle mileage, and how long they last, casts uncertainty over comparisons. Here we use data for every electric vehicle in Britain to assess mileage and lifetime compared to conventional and hybrid vehicles, and the implications for attributional lifecycle emissions. We find that first-generation BEVs were driven less and have not lasted as long as conventional vehicles, yet still had lower lifecycle emissions. The annual mileage and lifetime of BEVs purchased in 2026 will equal conventional vehicles if recent trends continue. Training a transformer neural network on this data, we estimate that current BEVs have projected attributional lifecycle emissions of 88 g CO
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