The size and range effect: lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions of electric vehicles
By L. Ellingsen, Bhawna Singh, A. Strømman. 2016
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The primary goal of this study is to investigate the effect of increasing battery size and driving range to the environmental impact of electric vehicles (EVs). To this end, we compile cradle-to-grave inventories for EVs in four size segments to determine their climate change potential. A second objective is to compare the lifecycle emissions of EVs to those of conventional vehicles. For this purpose, we collect lifecycle emissions for conventional vehicles reported by automobile manufacturers. The lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions are calculated per vehicle and over a total driving range of 180 000 km using the average European electricity mix. Process-based attributional LCA and the ReCiPe characterisation method are used to estimate the climate change potential from the hierarchical perspective. The differently sized EVs are compared to one another to find the effect of increasing the size and range of EVs. We also point out the sources of differences in lifecycle emissions between conventional- and electric vehicles. Furthermore, a sensitivity analysis assesses the change in lifecycle emissions when electricity with various energy sources power the EVs. The sensitivity analysis also examines how the use phase electricity sources influences the size and range effect.
Subfields: Automotive Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
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Citations in the corpus
- Forecasting the trajectory of electric vehicle sales and the consequences for worldwide CO2 emissions (2020, methodology): “The development of the market for electric vehicles (EVs) has gained increasing attention by policymakers and consumers over the past years, especially due to their potential to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (Ellingsen et al., 2016).”
- The rise of electric vehicles—2020 status and future expectations (2021, unknown): “Ellingsen et al (2016) find that large EVs emit proportionally less than small EVs compared to comparable ICEVs on a C2G basis (27% and 19%, respectively).”
- Key Factors Influencing Consumers’ Purchase of Electric Vehicles (2019, background): “For countries with carbon-intensive power production structures (such as India and China), with the full life cycle of vehicles considered, the reduction may even be greater [11].”
- Estimation of CO2 Emissions of Internal Combustion Engine Vehicle and Battery Electric Vehicle Using LCA (2019, methodology): “The lifetime driving distances were cited in the LCA literature for ICVs and/or BEVs such as 150,000 km [22], 160,000 km [23], 180,000 km [2] and 200,000 km [4,24] for the EU, 193,120 km [10] and 320,000 km [2] for the US, and 100,000 km [25] and 110,000 km [26] for Japan.”