Emission Impacts of Electric Vehicles

Wang, Quanlu; DeLuchi, Mark A.; Sperling, Daniel

doi:10.1080/10473289.1990.10466782

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“…In 1997, Wang and his colleagues compared the vehicle-cycle energy and emission effects of HEVs with those of conventional vehicles (Wang et al 1997). By using an early version of GREET to model the fuel cycle and vehicle cycle, the researchers examined two series HEVs: a conventional vehicle (CV)-like HEV and an electric vehicle (EV)-like HEV.…”

Section: Hybrid Electric Vehicle Study -1997mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Vapor processes, such as the carbonyl process, produce a highly pure powder, which contains greater than 99% nickel (Wang et al 1997). During this process, CO is reacted with nickel at 50°C to form nickel carbonyl [Ni(CO) 4 ], leaving behind cobalt, copper, and iron impurities.…”

Section: Nickelmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Production of virgin HDPE requires 33.0 million Btu of energy per ton of product, with over 80% of the input energy in the form of oil and gas (Gaines and Shen 1980). The energy needed to recycle HDPE is low (around one-fourth of that needed for virgin production) because the plastic can simply be cleaned, dried, ground, and remelted (Wang et al 1997). …”

Section: High-density Polyethylenementioning

confidence: 99%

“…This value was derived from the Electric Vehicle Total Energy Cycle Assessment (EVTECA) report data (Argonne National Laboratory et al 1998), plus assumed improvements in the process that would yield about a 20% reduction in energy intensity. Recycling PET by means of chemical methods consumes about one-third of the energy of virgin PET production (Chem Systems 1980); recycling by means of mechanical methods requires potentially less than that (Wang et al 1997). …”

Section: Polyestermentioning

confidence: 99%

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Development and applications of GREET 2.7 -- The Transportation Vehicle-CycleModel.

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Wu³

2006

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Section: Hybrid Electric Vehicle Study -1997mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Nickelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: High-density Polyethylenementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Polyestermentioning

confidence: 99%

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Development and applications of GREET 2.7 -- The Transportation Vehicle-CycleModel.

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Wang²,

Wu³

2006

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“…Prior studies determined that some of the environmental impacts from EVs were transferred from use phase to production phase of vehicles and electricity (Lave et al, 1995;Ai et al, 2010;Zhang, 2011;Hawkins et al, 2012). Since the 1990s, researchers focused on the environmental impacts of electric vehicles (Wang et al, 1990;Vimmerstedt et al, 1995;Campanari et al, 2009;Huo et al, 2010;Baptista et al, 2011;Cooney et al, 2013;Nanaki and Koroneos, 2013). The main research scales included the fuel life cycle, the engine life cycle, the vehicle key parts life cycle and the vehicle full life cycle.…”

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Electric vehicle transformation in Beijing and the comparative eco-environmental impacts: A case study of electric and gasoline powered taxis

Shi

Wang

Yang

et al. 2016

Journal of Cleaner Production

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a b s t r a c tTailpipe emissions of gasoline vehicles are one of a main cause of atmospheric environmental problems such as global warming and haze. The substitution of electric vehicles for conventional gasoline vehicles is a promising new way to reduce urban air pollution in many countries such as America, Japan, the EU countries and China. In 2011, Beijing launched a plan that was the substitution of electric vehicles (such as Midi taxis) for gasoline vehicles (such as Hyundai taxis) to low carbon transformations. Our study used local data and LCA based analysis to compare environmental impacts of the transition from Hyundai gasoline vehicles to Midi electric vehicles. We established a life cycle analysis (LCA) model with GaBi6 software and a life cycle assessment integrated model by CML2001 (Problem oriented) and EI99 (Damage oriented) models, which evaluated the comparative environmental impacts of the full life cycle, production stage, use stage and end of life. Finally, we analyzed the key haze-induced factors, key life cycle processes and the sensitivities of lifetime and electric power mix.Our results indicated that in light of the full life cycle assessment, electric vehicles could play significant role in decreasing the potential of Global Warming, Abiotic Depletion and Ozone Layer Depletion; whereas, electric vehicles also exhibited the impacts for increases in the potential of Acidification, Eutrophication, Human Toxicity and Eco-toxicity (marine aquatic and terrestrial). On the basis of inventory data analysis and 2010 Beijing electricity mix, the comparative results of haze-induced pollutants emissions showed that the full life cycle emission of VOCs from a Midi electric vehicle was lower than a Hyundai gasoline vehicle, but the emissions of PM 2.5 , NO x , SO x of a Midi electric vehicle were higher than a Hyundai gasoline vehicle. These differences are mainly the result of different emissions during the use stages. In addition, the results of sensitivity analysis indicated that the decreased rate of Green House Gas per kilometer (Midi relative to Hyundai) gradually improved with the increase of lifetime and use of cleaner energy; haze-induced pollutants and carbon emissions from EVs could be reduced significantly with the increased use of cleaner energy.

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Marketing of electric vehicles

Gärling

Thøgersen

2001

Bus. Strat. Env.

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Substituting electric vehicles for traditional ones could reduce local pollution and greenhouse emissions from the transportation system. However, these societal benefits come at high costs to the owner of the EV in terms of price, driving range, availability, loading capacity, speed and acceleration. In addition, the usability of an EV is hampered by the lack of an infrastructure for recharging. Such a product hardly sells itself to potential customers. Besides supportive national policies, skillful marketing is needed to get it accepted and diffused throughout society. This paper outlines a two‐phase strategy for the marketing of EVs based on a discussion of current and expected future characteristics of EVs and on a review of research on early adopters. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.

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Emission Impacts of Electric Vehicles

Cited by 35 publications

References 7 publications

Development and applications of GREET 2.7 -- The Transportation Vehicle-CycleModel.

Development and applications of GREET 2.7 -- The Transportation Vehicle-CycleModel.

Electric vehicle transformation in Beijing and the comparative eco-environmental impacts: A case study of electric and gasoline powered taxis

Marketing of electric vehicles

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