The environmental performance of current and future passenger vehicles: Life Cycle Assessment based on a novel scenario analysis framework

Applied Energy

Volumn 157, Issue , 2015, Pages 871-883

  Bauer, Christian ^a   Hofer, Johannes ^a   Althaus, Hans Jörg ^b,c   Del Duce, Andrea ^b,d   Simons, Andrew ^a,e  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

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

^c Swisscleantech   (Switzerland)

^d Quantis   (Switzerland)

^e Simons Stotz and Co   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Environmental performance; Life Cycle Assessment (LCA); Passenger vehicles; Vehicle modeling

Indexed keywords

CHAINS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ENERGY RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FUEL CELLS; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; NATURAL GAS DEPOSITS; NATURAL GAS VEHICLES; NATURAL GAS WELL PRODUCTION; TRANSPORTATION; VEHICLE PERFORMANCE; VEHICLES;

COMPARATIVE LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE; FUEL CELL ELECTRIC VEHICLE; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); PARTICULATE MATTER FORMATIONS; PASSENGER VEHICLES; TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS; VEHICLE MODEL;

LIFE CYCLE;

EID: 84982111239     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.01.019     Document Type: Article

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