A systematic review on sustainability assessment of electric vehicles: Knowledge gaps and future perspectives

NC Onat, M Kucukvar - Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 2022 - Elsevier
Electric mobility is emerging all around the world to minimize environmental impacts, reduce
dependency on petroleum, and diversify energy sources for transportation. Any emerging …

Environmental impacts of hybrid and electric vehicles—a review

TR Hawkins, OM Gausen, AH Strømman - The International Journal of Life …, 2012 - Springer
Purpose A literature review is undertaken to understand how well existing studies of the
environmental impacts of hybrid and electric vehicles (EV) address the full life cycle of these …

Life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions and net energy assessment of large-scale hydrogen production via electrolysis and solar PV

G Palmer, A Roberts, A Hoadley, R Dargaville… - Energy & …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Water electrolysis powered by solar photovoltaics (PV) is one of several promising green
hydrogen production technologies. It is critical that the life cycle environmental impacts and …

Energy use and life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of drones for commercial package delivery

JK Stolaroff, C Samaras, ER O'Neill, A Lubers… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The use of automated, unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) to deliver commercial packages
is poised to become a new industry, significantly shifting energy use in the freight sector …

Electricity accounting in life cycle assessment: the challenge of double counting

P Holzapfel, V Bach, M Finkbeiner - The International Journal of Life Cycle …, 2023 - Springer
Purpose In grid electricity consumption models, the location-based method uses regional
average emission factors to account for environmental impacts. The market-based method is …

Spatial and temporal heterogeneity of marginal emissions: Implications for electric cars and other electricity-shifting policies

JSG Zivin, MJ Kotchen, ET Mansur - Journal of Economic Behavior & …, 2014 - Elsevier
In this paper, we develop a methodology for estimating marginal emissions of electricity
demand that vary by location and time of day across the United States. The approach takes …

[HTML][HTML] Water use of electricity technologies: A global meta-analysis

Y **, P Behrens, A Tukker, L Scherer - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2019 - Elsevier
Understanding the water use of power production is an important step to both a sustainable
energy transition and an improved understanding of water conservation measures …

Health and climate benefits of different energy-efficiency and renewable energy choices

JJ Buonocore, P Luckow, G Norris, JD Spengler… - Nature Climate …, 2016 - nature.com
Energy efficiency (EE) and renewable energy (RE) can benefit public health and the climate
by displacing emissions from fossil-fuelled electrical generating units (EGUs). Benefits can …

Environmental life cycle analysis of distributed three-dimensional printing and conventional manufacturing of polymer products

M Kreiger, JM Pearce - ACS Sustainable Chemistry & …, 2013 - ACS Publications
With the recent development of the RepRap, an open-source self-replicating rapid
prototyper, low-cost three-dimensional (3D) printing is now a technically viable form of …

Regional Variability and Uncertainty of Electric Vehicle Life Cycle CO2 Emissions across the United States

MAM Tamayao, JJ Michalek… - … science & technology, 2015 - ACS Publications
We characterize regionally specific life cycle CO2 emissions per mile traveled for plug-in
hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and battery electric vehicles (BEVs) across the United …