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Passenger car emissions are ~8% of total CO2. Trucks etc are easier to greenify, replace with trains etc.


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Passenger cars are 33% of transport-related GHGs, the single largest category for transportation-related GHGs. Transportation-related GHGs is the largest category of GHGs in the whole pie for the US and comprises 27% of US GHGs. 33% of 27% is 8.9%. Light-duty trucks are 17.2% of transportation-related GHGs, so 4.6% of overall US GHGs. The US already has a heavily used freight-rail network.

[1]: https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/fast-facts-transportation-...

[2]: https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyPDF.cgi?Dockey=P10153PC.pdf


Electric trucks are in the works too

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