Emission factor from ProBas v02.44.152
Car, fuel cell, medium, DE, 2010, Variante2
Germany · Energy, full life cycle · Any year
Value per passenger carried one kilometre
0.0941kgCO₂e/p.km
Biogenic CO₂ and land use excluded · GWP100 · AR6
FossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂GHG Protocol and IPCC inventoriesOne value, for any year
ProBas sets no date window, so there is no year to pick.
Reference year 2010
- LoadHow full a lorry, train or ship runs with goods. A passenger factor counts passengers or vehicles, not tonnes, so no load applies.
- Not applicable
- Vehicle sizeThe vehicle's class, by weight or capacity. ProBas does not say which size this factor assumes.
- Not stated
- Distance bandFlights are priced by distance band, because take-off and climb burn a large share of a short flight's fuel. Road, rail and sea factors apply to a trip of any length.
- Any distance, not banded
- Cabin classA business seat takes more of the cabin than an economy one, so it carries more of the flight's emissions. First class on a long-haul flight counts four times economy.
- Not applicable on the road
- Region
- Germany DE
- Boundary
- Energy, full life cycle
- Data quality
- MediumRated by us, not by the source
- Licence
- Open · ProBas terms
Where 0.0941 comes from
ProBas prints this factor as a single figure, with no parts to add up.
Reporting this passenger-kilometre under the GHG Protocol
Scope 3, category 6 0.0941
A trip for work is business travel, Scope 3, category 6, whoever books it.
The factor, standardised
Every factor on open-climate.ai answers the same questions in the same words, whatever the publisher. Open any ⓘ for the definition.
Transport › Car travel · Germany · per p.km · Average
Energy, full life cycle · Excl. biogenic CO₂ · AR6
- BoundaryEnergy, full life cycleFull life-cycle emissions of one unit of energy service (a kWh generated, or a vehicle-, passenger- or tonne-kilometre moved): extraction and delivery of the fuel or electricity, its combustion in the plant or vehicle, and the manufacture of the generating asset or vehicle itself amortized over its lifetime output. Learn more
- Energy, full life cycle
- Fuel supply, fuel combustion and capital goods
- GWP methodWhich IPCC assessment report's warming potentials convert each gas to CO₂e, and over how many years the warming is counted (GWP100: 100 years). Learn more
- IPCC AR6, 100-year horizon
- Re-weighted by open-climate.ai from ProBas's AR5 figure of 0.0941 kgCO₂e/p.km
- CO₂e basisWhich carbon the CO₂e counts. Fossil only leaves out biogenic methane, land-use change and biogenic CO₂; excl. biogenic CO₂ counts biogenic methane but not the other two; net total counts every pool, net of removals. The same activity on two bases is two different numbers. Learn more
- Excl. biogenic CO₂FossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂GHG Protocol and IPCC inventories
- Split by gas
Medium quality · Open licence · Any year
What this number covers
The path of one passenger-kilometre, from the oil well to the end of the trip.
Fuel production
Extracting, refining and delivering the fuel
IncludedVehicle operation
Burning the fuel on the road, spread over the average load
IncludedEffect at altitude
Contrails and other warming from burning fuel high up. Flights only.
Not applicable on the roadYour trip
1 passenger carried 1 km. The factor is per passenger-kilometre.
= 0.0941
Gases in vehicle operation
Basis: Excl. biogenic CO₂Biogenic CO₂ and land-use change are left out; fossil CO₂, the other greenhouse gases and methane from biogenic sources are counted. Learn moreFossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂GHG Protocol and IPCC inventories
- Fossil CO₂0.08388.2%
- Methane (CH₄)0.005165.5%
- Nitrous oxide (N₂O)0.001131.2%
- Rest, not split by gas Derived by open-climate.ai0.004825.1%
The rest is not split by gas: open-climate.ai works it out as the 0.0941 total less the gases ProBas prints.
Also printed, as zero: sulphur hexafluoride (SF₆).
Each gas is converted to CO₂e with AR6 100-year warming potentials; biogenic CO₂ and land-use carbon are left out, while methane from biogenic sources is counted.
From ProBas's record to a comparable factor
ProBas publishes this factor as one record. Here is each field as printed and what open-climate.ai made of it.
About this factor
From ProBas
Translated from GermanData from the renewbility technology database of the Öko-Institut (#1)
Occupancy: 1Personen
Annual mileage: 11291km/a
Fuel/drive: H2 (energetic)
Lifetime: 14.7a
Specific consumption: 1.18MJ/km
Road category: Average valueShow ProBas's original (German)
Daten aus der Technologiedatenbank renewbility des Öko-Instituts (#1)
Besetzungsgrad: 1Personen
Fahrleistung: 11291km/a
Kraftstoff/Antrieb: H2 (energetisch)
Lebensdauer: 14,7a
spezifischer Verbrauch: 1,18MJ/km
Straßenkategorie: DurchschnittswertSource and licence
- Publisher
- Umweltbundesamt (German Environment Agency), ProBas
- Library
- ProBas v02.44.152
- Record
- 2c3cb165-e248-4aaf-99e1-be525f7b06b9
- Published
- 16 September 2020
The values and their metadata are served in full and may be reused with credit to the publisher.
Es gelten die Probas Nutzungsbedingungen, die hier eingesehen werden können: https://probas.umweltbundesamt.de/daten/static/Nutzungsbedingungen_ProBas.pdf
Cite this factor
ProBas, Umweltbundesamt. Normalised by open-climate.ai, https://open-climate.ai/factors/libraries/probas/ (CC BY 4.0). https://open-climate.ai/factors/ef-probas-pkwbzmittelde2010variant-de-pkm-energy_lifecycle-3f2682bf/?v=efv1-963381a6338215afa8703215d6b53e31
Something looks wrong?
Tell us which value and why. We check it against the source and answer within a week.