In this paper the environmental impacts of a battery electric vehicle (BEV) are assessed in a Belgian context. A full descriptive Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is performed, including the well-to-wheel (WTW) emissions (for a BEV these are the emissions coming from the electricity production) and the cradle-to-grave emissions (related directly and indirectly to the production and the end-of-life (EOL) processing of the vehicle). First an overview of the energy consumption of the different vehicle technologies is given. This clearly shows that battery electric vehicles are less energy intensive than other vehicle technologies. Secondly, the environmental impacts of a BEV during its entire life cycle are assessed in detail. This illustrates the relative importance of the manufacturing step for a BEV and the strongly reduced environmental impact when recycling the battery. Furthermore, the influence of the electricity supply mix on the overall environmental impact of a BEV is assessed. The investigated electricity production plants include renewable and non-renewable resources: wind, hydro, nuclear, biogas, natural gas, oil and coal. The assessed impact categories are: acidification, human health and the greenhouse effect (GHE). A BEV has a better scores than a petrol vehicle except for the full coal or oil electricity production scenario, for which the BEV can have a bad score for human health and acidification.


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    Titel :

    Environmental performance of a battery electric vehicle: a descriptive Life Cycle Assessment approach


    Beteiligte:
    Messagie, M. (Autor:in) / Boureima, F. (Autor:in) / Matheys, J. (Autor:in) / Sergeant, N. (Autor:in) / Timmermans, J.M. (Autor:in) / Macharis, C. (Autor:in) / Van Mierlo, J. (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2010


    Format / Umfang :

    4 Seiten, 3 Bilder, 13 Quellen


    Anmerkungen:

    (nicht paginiert)


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Datenträger


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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