Environmental life cycle assessment of electric vehicles in Poland and the Czech Republic

Burchart-Korol, Dorota; Jursová, Simona; Folęga, P.; Korol, Jerzy; Pustějovská, Pavlína; Blaut, Agata

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.08.145

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“…The problems related to the urban air pollution and energy security are accelerating the replacement of gasoline and diesel cars by battery electric vehicles. The 60% greenhouse gas emission reduction target established in the Transport White Paper 2011 [17] is one of the priorities of the European Commission [18], and many countries are establishing goals and bans related to the use and purchase of vehicles. Subsidies for BEV users, legislation and changing government policies and investments in charging infrastructures are some of the actions that different countries are taking towards this goal.…”

Section: Decarbonisation Of the Transport Sectormentioning

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Driven Performance of Electric Vehicles in Edinburgh and Its Environs

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Fuelled by energy security problems and urban air pollution challenges, several countries worldwide have set the objective to gradually eliminate petrol and diesel cars. The increasing support from government and demands for environmental friendly means of transportation are accelerating the use of battery electric vehicles. However, it is indispensable to have accurate and complete information about their behaviour in different traffic situations and road conditions. For the experimental analysis carried out in this study, three different electric vehicles from the Edinburgh College leasing program were equipped and tracked to obtain over 50 GPS and energy consumption data for short distance journeys in the Edinburgh area and long-range tests between Edinburgh and Bristol (UK). The results showed that the vehicles’ energy intensities were significantly affected by the driving cycle pattern, with a noticeable diminution due to low temperatures. It was found that the real available range of the electric vehicle in some situations could be 17% lower than the predicted mileage shown in the dashboard of the vehicle. The difference from the New European Driving Cycle (NEDC) values was even higher. The study has also provided a discussion on the effect of the electricity mix on carbon emission reduction.

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Section: Decarbonisation Of the Transport Sectormentioning

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Driven Performance of Electric Vehicles in Edinburgh and Its Environs

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“…A more comprehensive method for environmental impact assessment is the life cycle assessment (LCA). The LCA accounts for the environmental impacts throughout the vehicle life cycle, starting from the vehicle production phase (including manufacture of materials for vehicle production, vehicle assembly and fuel production), through the operation phase (including the fuel combustion phase and vehicle servicing), up to the life cycle end (waste management, including recycling and scrapping) [8][9][10][11].…”

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

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Folęga

2019

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The purpose of this paper is to provide a comparative environmental life cycle assessment (LCA) of chosen internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEVs). It addresses an LCA of both petrol-fuelled and diesel-fuelled passenger cars. The analyses pertained to the carbon footprint and respiratory inorganics related to the cars in question, considered against the relevant system from cradle to grave. The comparative analysis has shown that the carbon footprint of a diesel-fuelled car is lower than that of a petrolfuelled car. However, the environmental indicators of respiratory inorganics induced by diesel-fuelled cars are higher than those attributable to petrol-fuelled cars. The main determinant of carbon footprint for the life cycle of these ICEVs is the direct atmospheric emission of carbon dioxide associated with their operation. The main determinants of respiratory inorganics for the diesel passenger cars' life cycle are nitrogen oxide emission and car production. As for the life cycle of petrol-fuelled passenger cars, the largest share of the respiratory inorganics indicator is attributable to the car production and petrol production.

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“…The selected functional unit was 1 km driven by a medium-sized passenger car characterized by a lifespan of 150,000 km. Life lengths of vehicles can vary largely according to the specific characteristics of different models, but the assumed lifespan value is widely used as a reference for LCA studies of small-to medium-sized passenger cars [4,14,18,19,22]. A detailed description of the modeling assumptions for each life cycle stage is given in the following sections.…”

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“…Due to energy production and consumption, the use of vehicles is identified as the most relevant life cycle phase regarding the majority of environmental impact indicators considered, both for ICEVs-for which also the effects of lightweighting strategies are analyzed-and the different types of EVs [14][15][16][17]. Moreover, the impact reduction potential of EVs is estimated as gradually increasing with the optimization of the electricity mix (renewable energies penetration) and the wide application of advanced electricity technologies [18][19][20][21]. The disposal phase was found to have a minor influence on the total environmental burdens [22], even if different recycling technologies for the end-of-life of the vehicle could significantly differ in terms of impact [23].…”

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Traffic Simulation-Based Approach for A Cradle-to-Grave Greenhouse Gases Emission Model

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This paper presents a model to evaluate the life cycle greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions, expressed in terms of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO 2 eq), of a generic fleet composition as a function of the traffic simulation results. First we evaluated the complete life cycle of each category of the vehicles currently circulating; next, by defining a general linear equation, the traffic environmental performances of a real road network (city of Rome) were evaluated using a traffic simulation approach. Finally, the proposed methodology was applied to evaluate the GHG emission of a 100% penetration of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and various electric and conventional vehicles composition scenarios. In terms of life cycle impacts, BEVs are the vehicles with the highest GHG emissions at the vehicle level (construction + maintenance + end-of-life processes) that are, on average, 20% higher than internal combustion engine vehicles, and 6.5% higher than hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs). Nevertheless, a 100% BEVs penetration scenario generates a reduction of the environmental impact at the mobility system level of about 65%.

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Environmental life cycle assessment of electric vehicles in Poland and the Czech Republic

Cited by 108 publications

References 36 publications

Driven Performance of Electric Vehicles in Edinburgh and Its Environs

Driven Performance of Electric Vehicles in Edinburgh and Its Environs

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

Traffic Simulation-Based Approach for A Cradle-to-Grave Greenhouse Gases Emission Model

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