Electric passenger car transport and passenger car life cycle inventories in ecoinvent version 3

International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1314-1326

  Del Duce, Andrea ^a,b   Gauch, Marcel ^b   Althaus, Hans Jörg ^b,c  

^a Quantis   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c Swisscleantech   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ecoinvent; Electric mobility; Electric vehicles; Life cycle assessment; Sustainable transportation systems

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BATTERY INDUSTRY; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; ELECTRIC PASSENGER CAR TRANSPORT; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; RENEWABLE ENERGY; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT;

EID: 84908518528     PISSN: 09483349     EISSN: 16147502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11367-014-0792-4     Document Type: Article

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