Achieving deep cuts in the carbon intensity of U.S. Automobile transportation by 2050: Complementary roles for electricity and biofuels

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 9044-9052

  Scown, Corinne D ^a   Taptich, Michael ^b   Horvath, Arpad ^b   McKone, Thomas E ^a   Nazaroff, William W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE TRANSPORTATIONS; AUTOMOTIVE TRANSPORT; AUTOMOTIVE TRANSPORTATION; ELECTRICITY OPTIONS; LAND AVAILABILITY; PETROLEUM-DERIVED FUELS; PLUGIN HYBRID ELECTRIC VEHICLES (PHEV); TECHNICAL CHALLENGES;

AGRICULTURAL WASTES; BIOFUELS; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CELLULOSIC ETHANOL; COMBINED CYCLE POWER PLANTS; ELECTRICITY; ETHANOL; GREENHOUSE GASES; NATURAL GAS VEHICLES; PETROLEUM TRANSPORTATION;

AUTOMOBILES;

BIOFUEL; CARBON; GASOLINE; PETROLEUM;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIOFUEL; CARBON DIOXIDE; CELLULOSE; CROP RESIDUE; ELECTRIC VEHICLE; EMISSION INVENTORY; ETHANOL; FUTURE PROSPECT; GREENHOUSE GAS; PETROLEUM; POWER PLANT; PUBLIC TRANSPORT; TRAFFIC EMISSION;

ARTICLE; CAR; ELECTRICITY; GREENHOUSE GAS; LIQUID; PLANT RESIDUE; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; UNITED STATES;

UNITED STATES;

BIOFUELS; CARBON; ELECTRICITY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MOTOR VEHICLES; UNITED STATES; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 84882617629     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es4015635     Document Type: Article

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