Electric vehicles: A tentative economic and environmental evaluation
A simple model is developed to estimate the excess costs of an electric car, relative to a similar fuel car, for the consumer and for society, as well as the CO2 gains it offers. These magnitudes are a function of a dozen parameters, such as the purchase cost, the battery cost, the electric efficiency, the price of electricity, the CO2 content of electricity (for the electric car), the purchase cost, the fuel efficiency, fuel prices, local pollution costs, CO2 emission (for the fuel car), as well as car life and mileage driven. With the likely present values of these parameters, excess costs are much above 10,000 euros per car, for very small CO2 gains. Sensitivity analyses are conducted to test the impacts of possible changes in parameter values. In nearly all cases, they are not sufficient to eliminate excess costs or to significantly increase CO2 gains. The electric car appears to be a huge gamble with taxpayers money.
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- Abstract reprinted with permission from Elsevier.
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Authors:
- Prud'homme, Remy
- Koning, Martin
- Publication Date: 2012-9
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Print
- Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: pp 60-69
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Serial:
- Transport Policy
- Volume: 23
- Issue Number: 0
- Publisher: Elsevier
- ISSN: 0967-070X
- Serial URL: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/issn/096707X
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Computer models; Cost effectiveness; Costs; Electric automobiles; Environmental impacts; Externalities; Fuel consumption; Greenhouse gases; Sensitivity analysis
- Subject Areas: Economics; Energy; Environment; Highways; Vehicles and Equipment; I15: Environment; I96: Vehicle Operating Costs;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01446242
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Sep 14 2012 11:15AM