Environmental Assessment of Lightweight Electric Vehicles

• Main Author: Egede, Patricia (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Sustainable Production, Life Cycle Engineering and Management,
• Subjects: Engineering.; Energy policy.; Energy and state.; Transportation.; Automobile industry and trade.; Automotive engineering.; Sustainable development.; Automotive Engineering.; Sustainable Development.; Automotive Industry.; Energy Policy, Economics and Management.

This monograph adresses the challenge of the environmental assessment of leightweight electric vehicles. It poses the question whether the use of lightweight materials in electric vehicles can reduce the vehicles’ environmental impact and compares the environmental performance of a lightweight elect...

Table of Contents:

• Lightweight Electric Vehicles
• Electric Vehicles, Lightweight Design and Environmental Impacts
• State of Research on the Environmental Assessment of Electric and Lightweight Vehicles
• Concept for the Environmental Assessment of Lightweight Electric Vehicles
• Case studies on the comparison of (lightweight) electric vehicles with conventional and reference electric vehicles
• Summary, Critical Review and Outlook.