The RAMseS (Renewable Energy Agricultural Multipurpose System for Farmers) project, financed by the European Commission under the 6th framework Program, has the purpose of developing a solar powered agricultural vehicle in order to replace the conventional vehicles based on internal combustion engines (ICE). In the present study, the authors report a comparison of life-cycle emission between two systems; a conventional ICE vehicle (ICEV) and the RAMseS electrical vehicle (EV). The study has been conducted by designing a specific model and using the SimaPro software. The results show that the RAMseS system is considerably more environmentally friendly than conventional ICE based system and that, specifically, it can avoid the emission of about 23 ton of CO2 equ per year. Regarding all other pollutants, the RAMseS system is 2.6 times more efficient than the ICEV. The main contribution to emissions of the RAMseS system is due to the batteries which contribute for a 73% of the total. Therefore, further improvement can be obtained with the use of more advanced battery systems, not based on lead.


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    Title :

    Environmental assessment of RAMseS multipurpose electric vehicle compared to a conventional combustion engine vehicle


    Additional title:

    Umweltbewertung des elektrischen Mehrzweck-Fahrzeugs RAMseS im Vergleich zu einem Fahrzeug mit Verbrennungsmotor


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    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2009


    Size :

    10 Seiten, 5 Bilder, 13 Tabellen, 28 Quellen




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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