T&E: ‘Real-world CO2 emissions of PHEVs five times higher than official figures’
Transport & Environment's analysis of the 2023 European Environment Agency (EEA) data – covering 806,000 PHEVs – reveals that real-world CO₂ emissions are nearly five times higher than official test figures.
This gap is driven by overly optimistic Utility Factors (UFs)—the assumed sh

