Sustainability in agricultural mechanization: Assessment of a combined photovoltaic and electric multipurpose system for farmers

Sustainability

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1042-1068

  Mousazadeh, Hossein ^a   Keyhani, Alireza ^a   Mobli, Hossein ^a   Bardi, Ugo ^b   El Asmar, Toufic ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Electric vehicles; Environment; Life cycle cost; Pollution; Renewable energies; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866375286     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su1041042     Document Type: Article

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