Life cycle assessment of greenhouse gas emissions from plug-in hybrid vehicles: implications for policy.

By Constantine Samaras, Kyle W Meisterling. Environmental Science and Technology, 2008

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Electric vehicle cost, emissions, and water footprint in the United States: Development of a regional optimization model (2015, background): “99 kg CO2Eq/L Samaras & Meisterling [11] Emissions from gasoline estimated at a level of 2.”
Conventional, hybrid, plug-in hybrid or electric vehicles? State-based comparative carbon and energy footprint analysis in the United States (2015, methodology): “Samaras and Meisterling [16] analyzed the life cycle GHG emissions of PHEVs considering various electricity mix scenarios and the U.”
Life-Cycle Assessment of the Production of Rare-Earth Elements for Energy Applications: A Review (2014, methodology): “LCA has been used to study the environmental impact of energy technologies such as electric vehicles, solar photovoltaics, wind turbines, etc. (Samaras and Meisterling, 2008; Martinez et al., 2009; Tremeac and Meunier, 2009; Garrett and Rønde, 2013; Lizin et al., 2013).”
Predicting the Market Potential of Plug-in Electric Vehicles Using Multiday GPS Data (2012, background): “2007, Samaras and Meisterling 2008, and Sioshansi and Denholm 2009) and shift other emissions away from polluted urban centers by reducing (or eliminating) tailpipe emissions (Thomas 2009, Duvall and Knipping 2007).”