{"id":246961,"date":"2024-03-14T20:32:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T20:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/lfp-version-not-offered-to-us-is-greener-pick\/"},"modified":"2024-03-15T00:08:21","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T00:08:21","slug":"lfp-version-not-offered-to-us-is-greener-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/lfp-version-not-offered-to-us-is-greener-pick\/","title":{"rendered":"LFP version not offered to US is greener pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In a life cycle assessment of the Volvo EX30 electric vehicle released Thursday, the automaker underscored that its upcoming compact EV has the lowest carbon footprint of any electric Volvo yet.<\/p>\n<p>The team behind the EX30 analysis looked at two EX30 versions\u2014one with the 69-kwh lithium nickel cobalt manganese oxide (NMC) battery pack, the other with the 51-kwh lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery pack. And it pointed to a very significant difference that makes the LFP version by far the greener pick.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"static-marker-video-player-primis\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NMC battery has an impact that is almost twice as high as the LFP battery, per pack,\u201d Volvo summed, while it only offers 35% more capacity.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_wrapper first_wrapper\">\n<p>Volvo EX30 NMC vs LFP battery manufacturing CO2, future potential gains<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>That said, there\u2019s a big asterisk to this conclusion pointing to the greenest EX30: Americans can\u2019t choose it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The LFP decision appears to go beyond the EX30 as&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1142578_volvo-ex30-ev-lfp-version-not-offered-to-us-is-greener-pick\"target=\"_blank\">Read full article originally published on www.greencarreports.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a life cycle assessment of the Volvo EX30 electric vehicle released Thursday, the automaker underscored that its upcoming compact EV has the lowest carbon footprint of any electric Volvo yet. The team behind the EX30 analysis looked at two EX30 versions\u2014one with the 69-kwh lithium nickel cobalt manganese oxide (NMC) battery pack, the other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":246962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.0 (Yoast SEO v20.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>LFP version not offered to US is greener pick - Republic of Green News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1142578_volvo-ex30-ev-lfp-version-not-offered-to-us-is-greener-pick\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"LFP version not offered to US is greener pick\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In a life cycle assessment of the Volvo EX30 electric vehicle released Thursday, the automaker underscored that its upcoming compact EV has the lowest carbon footprint of any electric Volvo yet. 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