Skip to main content Skip to search Skip to section menu Skip to sidebar menu View accessibility support page

Imperial College London

Latest News

The UK government launched a £1bn artificial intelligence fund with industry at Imperial College London today.

UK launches £1bn AI fund at Imperial College London

Experts have equipped biotech workhorse bacteria with feedback control mechanism to balance growth with making protein products.

E. coli rewired to control growth as experts let them make proteins for medicine

Imperial staff have shared their perspective on working with a disability as part of  Calibre, Imperial’s specially designed leadership programme.

Staff share experiences of working with a disability

More News

Main Navigation

Search

  • Study
    Close
    • Study overview
    • Undergraduate
      Top Links
      • Courses for 2019 entry
      • How to apply
      • Fees and funding
      • Accommodation
      • Open days
      • Request a prospectus
    • Postgraduate
      Top Links
      • Courses for 2018–19
      • How to apply
      • Fees and funding
      • Accommodation
      • Open days
      • Request a prospectus
    • Faculties and departments
    • Continuing Professional Development
    • Executive Education
    • Centre for Languages Culture and Communication
    • St Paul's Cathedral Living in LondonLondon’s fusion of culture, charm and career opportunities is hard to beat
    • International studentsInternational studentsStudents come from over 125 different countries to study at Imperial
    • Queen's LawnCampus lifeExperience what it's like to be a member of the College community
  • Research & Innovation
    Close
    • Research and Innovation
    • Partner with us
      At a glance
      • Clinical Trials
      • Collaborations
      • Commercialisation
      • Consultancy
      • Executive education
      • A-Z services for partners
    • Research support
      At a glance
      • Resources for staff
      • Research Office
      • Faculty research services teams
      • Research integrity
      • Clinical Trials
      • Global Imperial
    • College Strategy 2015-2020
    • Faculties and departments
    • A-Z research groups and centres
    • Funding opportunities
    • REF 2021
    • Brain scansImperial’s impactRead case studies about how Imperial research has made a difference
    • Flying robotResearch newsKeep up to date with Imperial’s cutting edge discoveries
    • In the labEnterprising studentsFind out how our students develop their entrepreneurial & innovative ideas
  • Be Inspired
    Close
    • Be Inspired
    • Take part
      Top links
      • Schools activities
      • Public events
      • Festival
      • Alumni events
    • Engage online
      Top links
      • Lectures online
      • Podcasts
      • iTunes U
    • Social media directory
    • Staff and student volunteering
    • Imperial magazine
    • Societal engagement
    • PodcastsImperial College Podcastpresented by Gareth Mitchell and the Communications & Public Affairs pod squad
    • Imperial FestivalImperial FestivalMake a date with discovery at our celebration of science, engineering and creativity, 28-29 April
    • Student Blog home pageStudent blogsFind out about life on campus from our team of student bloggers
  • About
    Close
    • About
    • The College
      Overview
      • Strategy 2015-2020
      • League tables
      • Facts and figures
      • College governance
      • Administration and support services
      • Imperial timeline
    • Our people
      At a glance
      • President
      • Provost
      • Eminent alumni
      • Award winners
    • A - Z of Faculties and Departments
    • Faculty of Engineering
    • Faculty of Medicine
    • Faculty of Natural Sciences
    • Imperial College Business School
    • LionGlobal ImperialWe are the UK's most international university
    • Our campusesOur campusesExplore our London locations
    • White City CampusWhite City CampusImperial’s research and innovation district
  • Visit
  • What's on
  • News
  • Give
  • A-Z
    • Close
    • Faculties and departments
    • Multidisciplinary networks, centres and institutes
    • Research groups
    • People finder
    • Administration and support services
  • Information for
    • Close
    • Prospective students
    • Current students
    • Alumni
    • Staff
    • Jobs at Imperial
    • Partners and business
    • Media
    • Donors
    • Parents
    • Conference organisers

Grantham Institute – Climate Change and the Environment

Section Navigation

  • Close
  • Grantham Institute – Climate Change and the Environment Overview
  • About us
    • Our people
      • Grantham Affiliates
      • Staff
    • The Grantham Foundation
    • Advisory board
  • Our work
    • Earth systems: variability and change
      • Projects
        • Extra-tropical ocean-atmosphere coupling through moist convection
        • Advanced computational science for climate modelling
        • Ocean Dynamics and Climate
        • LOcal and Remote influences on Rainfall over India (LORRI)
        • ICECAP 2 - Exploring Princess Elizabeth Land
          • Why explore Antarctica?
          • Putting East Antarctica on the map
      • Plastic pollution in the ocean
      • Our planet's atmosphere
    • Impacts and adaptation
      • Climate change impacts and adaptation
        • Water security and flood risk
          • The Ganges river basin in India
          • Urban flooding
          • Glacier melt and water security
        • Sea level rise
        • Food security
          • Primary production and global environmental change
          • Crop diseases and pests
        • Ecosystems
          • Migratory species
          • Forest fragmentation
          • Species interaction
        • Health
        • UK impacts
          • UK weather 2013-2014
          • Extreme rainfall
        • Supply chains
      • Projects
        • Primary production, ecosystem processes and food supplies in a changing world
        • Understanding the Impact of Climate Change on Infectious Disease Dynamics
        • Simulation and prediction for sustainable water resources management
      • Environmental change and health
        • Salinity in Bangladesh
        • Air pollution: Exposomics
        • Extreme weather events
        • Infectious disease ecology
          • Ecology and management of wildlife pandemics
          • Global change ecology and biogeography of human infectious disease
          • Climate change and vector-borne diseases
    • Mitigation
      • Projects
        • Mitigation potential of new energy technologies
      • Climate change mitigation
        • Mitigation technologies
        • Efficiency in industry
        • Energy systems
        • Mitigation policy
        • Background reading
      • Energy storage technologies
      • The path to a low-carbon future
        • Next-generation climate mitigation technologies
        • Climate impact of electric vehicles
    • Centre for Cleantech Innovation
      • Cleantech Accelerator programme
    • Academic publications
  • Get involved
    • Become a Grantham Affiliate
      • Funding opportunities
        • Capacity building workshops
        • Pump priming
        • Grantham Research Fellows
        • PhD studentships
        • PhD secondments
        • Public engagement with research
    • Find out more about climate change
    • Create a partnership
    • Sponsor an activity
    • See our vacancies
    • Grantham Art Prize 2018
  • News and events
    • News
    • Events
      • Changing Planet Seminar Series
    • Past events
      • Public lectures & seminars
    • Newsletter sign up
    • Blog
    • 15 Minutes into the Future podcast
      • Episode 1 - David Keith
      • Episode 2 - Nigel Topping
      • Episode 3 - Christiana Figueres
      • Episode 4 - Stephen Belcher
      • Episode 5 - Erik van Sebille
      • Episode 6 - Michael Molitor
      • Episode 7 - Helene Winch
  • Education
    • Science and Solutions for a Changing Planet DTP
      • About us
        • Governance
        • Our Students
          • Cohort 1 (2014 entry)
          • Cohort 2 (2015 entry)
          • Cohort 3 (2016 entry)
          • Cohort 4 (2017 entry)
        • Our Staff
        • Our Partners
          • Core Partners
          • Wider Partner Network
      • Programme
        • Essential Skills Training
        • Fieldwork
        • Challenge Teams
          • Project List 2016-17
          • Project List 2015-16
        • Highlights
          • Decision making under risk and uncertainty workshop
          • London Environmental Challenge
          • Christiana Figueres Lecture
      • External engagement
        • Changing Planet Seminar Series
        • Innovating for Sustainable Development
          • First residential, interdisciplinary challenges
          • Case Study 1
          • Case Study 2
          • Case Study 3
          • Second residential
          • Meet the Cleantech Pioneers
        • Internships
      • Studentship opportunities
        • FAQs
        • Undergraduate – Research Placements & Opportunities
    • Masters – MSc Climate Change, Management & Finance
    • Undergraduate – Research Placements & Opportunities
    • Specialist Training
    • Contact Us
  • Publications
  • Contact us
  • Home
  • Grantham Institute – Climate Change and the Environment
  • Our work
  • Mitigation
  • The path to a low-carbon future
  • Climate impact of electric vehicles

Climate impact of electric vehicles

Infographic showing the carbon emissions of electric vehicles in different countriesFor more details of data used, see Drax Electric Insights: Electric cars get greener and The low carbon electricity league table.
Download the full list of data sources here: Data source for - Is it better for the climate to drive an electric car

Our work

  • Earth systems: variability and change
    • Projects
      • Extra-tropical ocean-atmosphere coupling through moist convection
      • Advanced computational science for climate modelling
      • Ocean Dynamics and Climate
      • LOcal and Remote influences on Rainfall over India (LORRI)
      • ICECAP 2 - Exploring Princess Elizabeth Land
        • Why explore Antarctica?
        • Putting East Antarctica on the map
    • Plastic pollution in the ocean
    • Our planet's atmosphere
  • Impacts and adaptation
    • Climate change impacts and adaptation
      • Water security and flood risk
        • The Ganges river basin in India
        • Urban flooding
        • Glacier melt and water security
      • Sea level rise
      • Food security
        • Primary production and global environmental change
        • Crop diseases and pests
      • Ecosystems
        • Migratory species
        • Forest fragmentation
        • Species interaction
      • Health
      • UK impacts
        • UK weather 2013-2014
        • Extreme rainfall
      • Supply chains
    • Projects
      • Primary production, ecosystem processes and food supplies in a changing world
      • Understanding the Impact of Climate Change on Infectious Disease Dynamics
      • Simulation and prediction for sustainable water resources management
    • Environmental change and health
      • Salinity in Bangladesh
      • Air pollution: Exposomics
      • Extreme weather events
      • Infectious disease ecology
        • Ecology and management of wildlife pandemics
        • Global change ecology and biogeography of human infectious disease
        • Climate change and vector-borne diseases
  • Mitigation
    • Projects
      • Mitigation potential of new energy technologies
    • Climate change mitigation
      • Mitigation technologies
      • Efficiency in industry
      • Energy systems
      • Mitigation policy
      • Background reading
    • Energy storage technologies
    • The path to a low-carbon future
      • Next-generation climate mitigation technologies
      • Climate impact of electric vehicles
  • Centre for Cleantech Innovation
    • Cleantech Accelerator programme
  • Academic publications
Print Email Share

Contact & Links

Section Information

Imperial College London

Grantham Institute

Exhibition Road, South Kensington
London SW7 2AZ
United Kingdom

Map

Follow

FacebookTwitterYouTubeLinked in

KEEP IN TOUCH

Sign up to our mailing list

The Grantham Institute is supported by the Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment.

  • Find out more

Useful Links

Information for

  • Prospective students
  • Alumni
  • Jobs
  • Partners and business
  • Media
  • Donors
  • Parents
  • Conference organisers

Top links

  • Imperial and the EU
  • Outlook 365 web access
  • Contact the ICT Service Desk
  • Library
  • Blackboard
  • Sport
  • Term dates

Students

  • Current students
  • Imperial College Union
  • Student Hub
  • Careers Service
  • Imperial Mobile
  • Graduation

Staff

  • Staff main page
  • ICIS
  • HR procedures
  • Salaries, Terms and Conditions
  • Pension schemes
  • Research support
  • Information for new staff

Imperial partners

  • Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
  • Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre
  • Imperial College Health Partners
  • Imperial Consultants
  • Imperial Innovations

A-Z

  • Faculties, departments and institutes
  • Research groups
  • Administration and support services
  • People finder

College Information

Imperial College London

Address

South Kensington Campus
London SW7 2AZ, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7589 5111
Campuses & maps

Follow Imperial

Facebook Twitter You Tube Linked in Google Plus Instagram Weibo

Site Information

  • Sitemap
  • Accessibility
  • About this site
  • Use of cookies
  • Report incorrect content
  • © 2018 Imperial College London
  • Log in