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News Press release: Climate footprint of combustion engines far worse than that of electric cars

From a climate perspective, a battery-powered vehicle is always superior to a combustion engine, even if the latter refuels with synthetic fuels in the future. This is the conclusion of a new study co

News Open letter to the Federal Government: Continue practice-oriented research into electromobility!

A broad alliance from research and industry, including ifeu, is calling on the German government to provide federal funding for application-oriented research into electromobility in the 2024 budget an

News ifeu-Podcast: „Career versus climate protection“ - How researchers can reduce business air travel and still work successfully

Travelling by plane on business - it's all part and parcel of research. But what is good for exchange, networking and careers is bad for the climate: in many research institutions, more than half of e

News New ifeu paper: Switching to an electric car is almost always worthwhile for an old combustion engine car

Opting for an electric car is almost always the more climate-friendly option when considering the entire life cycle of new vehicles. This is the conclusion of a new study, which is now available as an

Publication Buying a new electric car or continuing to use the old combustion engine?

A comparison of the climate impact from different accounting perspectives

Authors: Hinrich Helms , Claudia Kämper , Udo Lambrecht
Year: 2024

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Project BWeRoads

Runtime 01/2024 – 12/2026

The challenge: It is not easy for operators of public charging and H2 refueling infrastructure to estimate the volume of users that can be expected from electric trucks. Conversely, logistics companie

Publication Verbesserung der Vorjahresschätzung der Klimagasemissionen des Verkehrssektors

Authors: Michel Allekotte , Marie Colson , Christoph Heidt , Wolfram Knörr , Jan Kräck
Year: 2023

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News Six building blocks for multimodal and climate-friendly mobility - what stakeholders can do

Current study for the Rhine-Main-Neckar region on the mobility of the future The Darmstadt Rhine-Main-Neckar region has great potential to master the challenges of the urgently needed transport transi

News Sustainable conversion of public vehicle fleets

Public sector vehicle fleets are to be sustainably converted. In practice, instruments developed by ifeu in the project "Environmentally friendly procurement of cars by public authorities" , funded by

News Results from the "FlyingLess" project in the Nature portfolio journal "Climate Action"

Successful research - less flying Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from business air travel is one of the most effective climate protection levers in the scientific community, but is associated with