Comparative Life Cycle Impact Assessment of Chosen Passenger Cars With Internal Combustion Engines

Burchart-Korol, Dorota; Folęga, P.

doi:10.20858/tp.2019.14.2.6

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“…A vital aspect of examining the efficiency of e-mobility turns out to be the appropriate manner of analyzing the impact that electric vehicles exert on the environment. Publications describe the approach based on the analysis of the entire fuel life cycle-the Well-to-Wheel method (WTW) [77].…”

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Environmental Effects of Electromobility in a Sustainable Urban Public Transport

Pietrzak

2020

Sustainability

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This article has taken up an issue concerning the influence of the implementation of electromobility assumptions on reduction of air pollution in cities in terms of sustainable urban transport systems. The essential nature of the subject is confirmed by the following figures: transport is responsible for almost 25% of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe and is the main cause of air pollution in cities, almost 90% of city dwellers in the EU are exposed to levels of air pollutants deemed harmful by the WHO, and approximately 95% of vehicles on European roads still use fossil fuels. Therefore, the implemented transport policy, both in the international and domestic aspect of particular countries, is facing the need to significantly reduce the negative influence of transport on people and the environment. Electromobility has become one of the concepts that makes it possible to achieve this goal. Its main objective is to reduce emissions of harmful substances into the environment by deploying electric vehicles (EVs). Research conducted by the authors showed that public transport, apart from the obvious effect of decreased number of private vehicles and decreased congestion, can contribute to reduced air pollutant emissions and become a significant driver for the implementation of electromobility in cities. However, the achievement of this goal depends on taking appropriate actions not only in the transport branch but also in other sectors of economy. The following research methods were applied in the article: literature analysis, documentary method, case study, and mathematical methods. The research area was the city of Szczecin, Poland.

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Environmental Effects of Electromobility in a Sustainable Urban Public Transport

Pietrzak

2020

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“…Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a standardized method to assess environmental impacts [1]. In recent years, many LCAs have focused on the comparison of battery electric and internal combustion engine vehicles (BEVs and ICEVs) [2][3][4][5][6]. Kawamoto et al studied the influence of different regions and their implications on the life cycle emissions of ICEVs and BEVs [7].…”

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Method for a Multi-Vehicle, Simulation-Based Life Cycle Assessment and Application to Berlin’s Motorized Individual Transport

2020

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The transport sector in Germany causes one-quarter of energy-related greenhouse gas emissions. One potential solution to reduce these emissions is the use of battery electric vehicles. Although a number of life cycle assessments have been conducted for these vehicles, the influence of a transport system-wide transition has not been addressed sufficiently. Therefore, we developed a method which combines life cycle assessment with an agent-based transport simulation and synthetic electric-, diesel- and gasoline-powered vehicle models. We use a transport simulation to obtain the number of vehicles, their lifetime mileage and road-specific consumption. Subsequently, we analyze the product systems’ vehicle production, use phase and end-of-life. The results are scaled depending on the covered distance, the vehicle weight and the consumption for the whole life cycle. The results indicate that the sole transition of drive trains is insufficient to significantly lower the greenhouse gas emissions. However, sensitivity analyses demonstrate that there is a considerable potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions with higher shares of renewable energies, a different vehicle distribution and a higher lifetime mileage. The method facilitates the assessment of the ecological impacts of complete car-based transportation in urban agglomerations and is able to analyze different transport sectors.

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“…Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a standardized method to assess environmental impacts [1]. In the past years, many LCAs have focused on the comparison of battery electric and internal combustion engine vehicles (BEV and ICEV) [2][3][4][5][6]. Kawamoto et al studied the influence of different regions and their implications on the life cycle emissions of ICEVs and BEVs [7].…”

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Method for a Multi-vehicle, Simulation-based Life Cycle Assessment and Application to Berlin's Motorized Individual Transport

Syré¹,

Heining²,

Göhlich³

2020

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The transport sector in Germany causes one-quarter of energy-related greenhouse gas emissions. One potential solution to reduce these emissions is the use of battery electric vehicles. Although a number of life cycle assessments have been conducted for these vehicles, the influence of a transport system wide transition has not been researched sufficiently. Therefore, we developed a method which combines life cycle assessment with an agent-based transport simulation and synthetic electric, diesel and gasoline powered vehicle models. We use the transport simulation to obtain the number of vehicles, their lifetime mileage and road-specific consumption. Subsequently we analyze the product systems’ vehicle production, use phase and End-of-Life. The results are scaled depending on the covered distance, the vehicle weight and the consumption for the whole life cycle. The results indicate that the sole transition of drive trains is insufficient to significantly lower the greenhouse gas emissions. However, sensitivity analyses demonstrate that there is a considerable potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions with higher shares of renewable energies, a different vehicle distribution and a higher lifetime mileage. The method facilitates the assessment of the ecological impacts of the complete car based transportation in urban agglomerations and is able to analyze different transport sectors.

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Comparative Life Cycle Impact Assessment of Chosen Passenger Cars With Internal Combustion Engines

Cited by 4 publications

References 6 publications

Environmental Effects of Electromobility in a Sustainable Urban Public Transport

Environmental Effects of Electromobility in a Sustainable Urban Public Transport

Method for a Multi-Vehicle, Simulation-Based Life Cycle Assessment and Application to Berlin’s Motorized Individual Transport

Method for a Multi-vehicle, Simulation-based Life Cycle Assessment and Application to Berlin's Motorized Individual Transport

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