Life cycle assessment of battery electric vehicles: Implications of future electricity mix and different battery end-of-life management.

ABSTRACT: The environmental performance of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) is influenced by their battery size and charging electricity source. Therefore, assessing their environmental performance should consider changes in the electricity sector and refurbishment of their batteries. This study conducts a scenario-based Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of three different scenarios combining four key parameters: future changes in the charging electricity mix, battery efficiency fade, battery refurbishment, and recycling for their collective importance on the life-cycle environmental performance of a BEV. The system boundary covers all the life-cycle stages of the BEV and includes battery refurbishment, except for its second use stage. The refurbished battery was modelled considering refurbished component

SUBMITTER: Koroma MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9171403 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature