Carbon dioxide and consumption reduction through electric vehicles
H. Helms; C. Kämper; U. Lambrecht IFEU—Institut für Energie- und Umweltforschung Heidelberg GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany
Abstract
Electric vehicles are embraced as a key technology for sustainable transport because they have quiet engines, zero local emissions, and the potential for using different (also renewable) energy sources in road traffic, which so far could not be integrated. Large shares of the current European electricity supply, however, are still being generated using fossil energy carriers. Therefore, considerable life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions are still caused by electricity generation in Europe (EU27 mix), which limits the advantage of electric vehicles ...
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