Life Cycle Assessment on the Mobility Service E-Scooter Sharing

Severengiz, Semih; Finke, Sebastian; Schelte, Nora; Wendt, Norman

doi:10.1109/e-tems46250.2020.9111817

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“…Mileage assumptions for shared e-scooters have been informed by Chester (2018), Hawkins (2020), Lagadic, (2019) and Chang et al, (2019), and Severengiz et al, (2020) for shared e-scooters, in addition to specific communications with operators. Schuller and Aboukrat (2019) and personal communications with operators informed assumptions on e-scooter lifetimes.…”

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Good to Go? Assessing the Environmental Performance of New Mobility

2020

International Transport Forum Policy Papers

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The report is draws from contributions and insights that emerged at the ITF Corporate Partnership Board (CPB) Workshop "Lifecycle Assessment of Emerging Urban Transport Business Models", held on 1 October 2019 at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris, France (https://www.itf-oecd.org/lifecycle-assessment-emerging-urban-transport-business-models). Participants in this workshop are listed in Annex B. Special thanks for further contributions and insightful comments during the review process go to:

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Good to Go? Assessing the Environmental Performance of New Mobility

2020

International Transport Forum Policy Papers

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“…The use of e-scooters in urban routes increasingly enables the use of other means of public transport (metro, bus, train, etc. ), strengthening intermodality, as well as reducing the use of private vehicles [15].…”

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“…Shared mobility is now a new means of transport [13], [15]. In 2018, Spain was home to the largest implementation of moped scooter-sharing services -with 35 % of the total world fleet [2].…”

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“…Typical distances covered by e-scooters range between 20 km to 25 km, depending on the battery capacity, the hilliness of the route, the weight of the driver, and the riding style. All these new electric mobility resources are quick for urban journeys of up to 10 km, according to the German Federal Environmental Agency [29], [15]. A study performed in [30] shows that between 14% and 29% of car trips made in a Spanish city could be walked, or cycled (between 50% and 70%), and so they might also be done on LePTWs.…”

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“…The recharging of units offered by means of dockless scooter-sharing services, like those described in [32], is done by crowd-sourcing programs in which the company pays individuals to recharge e-scooters at home, using the conventional electricity provided by the power network [33]. The freelance charger assignment problem during e-scooter collection is analysed in [6]; while the full life-cycle environmental impact of e-scooter sharing services is discussed in [15]. Recharging with an off-board charger connected to the grid also produces air contamination due to the electricity mix used in most countries.…”

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Photovoltaic Electric Scooter Charger Dock for the Development of Sustainable Mobility in Urban Environments

2020

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Means and modes of transport in urban environments are changing. The emergence of new means of personal transport, such as e-scooters or e-bikes, combined with new concepts such as 'vehicle sharing' are changing urban transport. A greater social awareness of the harmful effects of polluting gases is leading to the adoption of new e-mobility solutions. A sustainable e-scooter recharging dock has been designed, built, and put into operation in a small town north of the city of Valencia (Spain). In the proposed novel solution, a stand-alone PV system is built for the free recharge of e-scooters using an original system that supports new sustainable means of transport. The design of the PV system considers the size limitations of the equipment, where a single PV module must generate the energy needed to recharge the e-scooters. A battery is used to store the energy and adjust power generation and consumption profiles. A commercial electronic converter adjusts the various electrical characteristics of generation, storage, and consumption. As a result of the system analysis, the surplus autonomy provided for the e-scooter recharging dock is calculated. Potential stakeholders in the use of the proposed system and their reasons for adopting this sustainable solution are identified. Experimental results of the first months of operation are included and these demonstrate the correct operation of the proposed system. INDEX TERMS E-scooter charger dock, photovoltaic energy, sustainable mobility, e-mobility solutions, stand-alone photovoltaic system.

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Life cycle assessment of electric scooters for mobility services: A green mobility solutions

Ishaq

Nawaz

2022

Intl J of Energy Research

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Summary The gradual rise in global warming owing to fossil fuels usage is causing massive environmental problems and global temperature rise and countries are focusing on the negative emissions technologies (NETs) to restrict the average global temperature rise to 1.5°C by 2050. As Italy instigates its stable recovery from the coronavirus emergency, the Italian government is offering Italian people financial support of up to €500 to buy a personal bicycle or e‐scooter, to reduce dependence on private cars and global warming issues and people inItaly have greeted this opportunity for new personal e‐scooters. This paper aims to employ a life cycle assessment (LCA) on the personally owned electric scooters (PEOS) that are circulating in Turin. The results are reported for five impact categories: global warming potential (GWP), acidification potential, eutrophication potential, ozone layer depletion, and human toxicity potential. We found that the environmental load associated with the usage and charging of e‐scooters is less compared with the materials and manufacturing burdens of e‐scooters. Regarding the GWP, the results of Analysis methodology of the use of the PEOS generate 21 g of CO2‐eq. per passenger‐kilometer dominated by around 50% from materials processing, 17.5% from Li‐ion battery production, 1.6% from transportation, and 30.9% from usage and charging of e‐scooter. Four scenarios are compared with the base case situation, which are the substitution of alternate materials, use of 50% recycled aluminum, transportation of e‐scooters via plan, and charging with solar power. Results from these scenarios are proved to be highly sensitive to baseline scenarios. Results also revealed that PEOS has higher (21 g CO2 eq./km) environmental consequences on the global warming potential as compared to bicycles (8 g CO2 eq./km) and lower (21 g CO2 eq./km) environmental impacts as compared with electric bicycles (40 g CO2 eq./km) and battery electric vehicles (80 g CO2 eq./km).

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Life Cycle Assessment on the Mobility Service E-Scooter Sharing

Cited by 48 publications

References 6 publications

Good to Go? Assessing the Environmental Performance of New Mobility

Good to Go? Assessing the Environmental Performance of New Mobility

Photovoltaic Electric Scooter Charger Dock for the Development of Sustainable Mobility in Urban Environments

Life cycle assessment of electric scooters for mobility services: A green mobility solutions

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