Life cycle air emissions impacts and ownership costs of light-duty vehicles using natural gas as a primary energy source

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 5151-5160

  Luk, Jason M ^a   Saville, Bradley A ^a   MacLean, Heather L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; BATTERY ELECTRIC VEHICLES; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPRESSED NATURAL GAS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; GAS EMISSIONS; LIFE CYCLE;

COMPRESSED NATURAL GASSES (CNG); CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CRITERIA AIR CONTAMINANTS; LIGHT DUTY VEHICLES; PLUG-IN VEHICLES; PRIMARY ENERGY SOURCE; TAILPIPE EMISSION; VEHICLE EMISSION;

NATURAL GAS VEHICLES;

NATURAL GAS; EXHAUST GAS; GASOLINE;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EMISSION CONTROL; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; HEALTH RISK; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; NATURAL GAS; TRAFFIC EMISSION;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ELECTRIC BATTERY; ENERGY RESOURCE; EXHAUST GAS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; LIFE CYCLE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROBABILITY; ANALYSIS; CAR; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; POWER SUPPLY;

AUTOMOBILES; CLIMATE CHANGE; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; ENERGY-GENERATING RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENT; GASOLINE; HUMANS; NATURAL GAS; OWNERSHIP; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 84928380963     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es5045387     Document Type: Article

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