Natural gas as an alternative to crude oil in automotive fuel chains well-to-wheel analysis and transition strategy development

Energy Policy

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 579-594

  Hekkert, Marko P ^a   Hendriks, Franka H J F ^a   Faaij, Andrew P C ^a   Neelis, Maarten L ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Automotive fuels; CO2 emissions; Natural gas fuel chains; Transition strategies

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE FUELS; CARBON DIOXIDE; FUEL CELLS; GASOLINE; NATURAL GAS;

CARBON EMISSIONS; FUEL CHAINS; ROAD TRANSPORT;

CRUDE PETROLEUM;

ALTERNATIVE FUEL; CARBON EMISSION; CRUDE OIL; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; NATURAL GAS;

FELINE CALICIVIRUS;

EID: 6444223614     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2003.08.018     Document Type: Article

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