The size and range effect: Lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions of electric vehicles

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Ellingsen, Linda Ager Wick ^a   Singh, Bhawna ^a   Strømman, Anders Hammer ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

climate change; electric vehicle; electricity mix; greenhouse gas emissions; industrial ecology; Li ion battery; lifecycle assessment

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURE; CRASHWORTHINESS; ELECTRIC AUTOMOBILES; ELECTRIC VEHICLES; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENHOUSE GASES; INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS; LIFE CYCLE; LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VEHICLES;

AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURERS; CLIMATE CHANGE POTENTIALS; ELECTRIC VEHICLES (EVS); ELECTRICITY SOURCE; INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY; LIFE CYCLE EMISSIONS; LIFE-CYCLE ASSESSMENTS; LIFE-CYCLE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ELECTRIC VEHICLE; ELECTRICITY; ENERGY RESOURCE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GREENHOUSE GAS; INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; ION; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EUROPE;

EID: 84975478892     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/5/054010     Document Type: Article

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