{"id":222733,"date":"2019-05-02T08:21:15","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T15:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/new-study-from-vw-confirms-evs-produce-lower-emissions-than-diesels\/"},"modified":"2019-05-02T08:21:15","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T15:21:15","slug":"new-study-from-vw-confirms-evs-produce-lower-emissions-than-diesels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/new-study-from-vw-confirms-evs-produce-lower-emissions-than-diesels\/","title":{"rendered":"New study from VW confirms EVs produce lower emissions than diesels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/chargedevs.com\/newswire\/new-study-from-vw-confirms-evs-produce-lower-emissions-than-diesels\/\">Charles Morris<\/a><\/span>  Volkswagen has refuted a recent anti-EV hit piece with a new study that confirms what many earlier studies have found: EVs have smaller life-cycle carbon footprints than comparable ICE vehicles, even if they are charged by dirty fossil-derived energy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the same vehicle models with different powertrains, the<br \/>\ncarbon footprint of the <a href=\"https:\/\/chargedevs.com\/newswire\/new-study-from-vw-confirms-evs-produce-lower-emissions-than-diesels\/\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"rssmi_more\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/chargedevs.com\/newswire\/new-study-from-vw-confirms-evs-produce-lower-emissions-than-diesels\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"New study from VW confirms EVs produce lower emissions than diesels\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/chargedevs.com\/newswire\/new-study-from-vw-confirms-evs-produce-lower-emissions-than-diesels\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volkswagen has refuted a recent anti-EV hit piece with a new study that confirms what many earlier studies have found: EVs have smaller life-cycle carbon footprints than comparable ICE vehicles, even if they are charged by dirty fossil-derived energy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the same vehicle models with different powertrains, the<br \/>\ncarbon footprint of the <a href=\"https:\/\/chargedevs.com\/newswire\/new-study-from-vw-confirms-evs-produce-lower-emissions-than-diesels\/\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"rssmi_more\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> &#8230;read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charged-magazine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}