Factor record · sports-unknown-km-scope-3-defra-2025last verified 2025-06-10 · DESNZ
0.224
kgCO2e / km
Historical vintage · Current: DEFRA 2026Travel by car — Sports
Business travel · Road transport · Passenger car
Fuel / powertrain
Use this average value when the car’s fuel or powertrain is not known.
Vintage
Select unit
GHG Breakdown
CO₂
0.2232
kgCO2e/km
CH₄
0.0003
kgCO2e/km
N₂O
0.0005
kgCO2e/km
Record
- Identifier
- XbujRGz79Ku8
- Activity
- Travel by car — Sports
- Activity class
- Business travel · Road transport · Passenger car
- Category
- transport
- Sub-category
- Cars (by market segment)
- Market segment
- Sports
- Fuel / powertrain
- Average / unknown
- Region
- GBR · United Kingdom
- Value
- 0.224 kgCO2e/km
- Scope
- Scope 3*
- Scope 3 category
- Category 6
- Methodology
- activity based
- GWP
- AR5 / GWP100
- Vintage year
- 2025
- Published
- 2025
- Source reference
- Factors by Category sheet, ID 25_300_3032_4_1
- License
- Open Government Licence v3.0
- Verified
- 2025-06-10 · DESNZ
Citation
DEFRA 2025, Travel by car — Sports, Factors by Category sheet, ID 25_300_3032_4_1
Methodology
Derived from direct physical activity measurements (litres, kilometres, kilograms). The most accurate approach where activity data exists.
Notes
* Scope 3 boundary · Use this factor for Scope 3 Category 6 passenger road journeys undertaken for business in vehicles outside the reporting organisation’s ownership or control. Choose the car, motorbike, bus, coach, or taxi record and unit that match the travel data available. Separate factors apply to employee commuting, owned or controlled vehicles, freight transport, rail travel, and upstream well-to-tank emissions.
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