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JUNGMEIER, G., CANELLA, L., BEERMANN, M., PUCKER, J., KÖNIGHOFER, K.
LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT OF ELECTRIC VEHICLES – AUSTRIAN RESULTS IN AN INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT
KOMUNALNA ENERGETIKA / POWER ENGINERING, 29
The Renewable Energy Directive aims reaching a share of 10% of renewable fuels in Europe in 2020. These renewable fuels are transportation biofuels, renewable electricity and renewable hydrogen. Electric vehicles can significantly contribute towards creating a sustainable, intelligent mobility and intelligent transportation systems. But the broad market introduction of electric vehicles is only justified due to a significant improvement of the environmental impact compared to conventional vehicles. This means that in addition to highly efficient electric vehicles and renewable electricity, the overall environmental impact in the life cycle - from building the vehicles and the battery to recycling at the end of its useful life – has to be limited to an absolute minimum. There is international consensus that the environmental effects of electric vehicles (and all other fuel options) can only be analysed on the basis of life cycle assessment (LCA) including production, operation and end of life treatment of the vehicles. The LCA results for different environmental effects e.g. greenhouse gas emissions, primary energy consumption, eutrophication are assessed in comparison to other fuels e.g. transportation biofuels, gasoline, natural gas and the key factors to maximize the environmental benefits are identified: 1) source of electricity, 2) energy consumption of vehicle, 3) energy demand for heating and cooling, 4) end of life treatment of batteries and 6) battery life time. The presented results are mainly based on a national research projects. These results are currently compared and discussed with international research activities within the International Energy Agency (IEA) in the Implementing Agreement on Hybrid and Electric Vehicles (IA-HEV) in Task 19 “Life Cycle Assessment of Electric Vehicles” that is led by the author.(http://www.ieahev.org/tasks/task-19-life-cycle-assessment-of-evs).

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