Environmental assessment of electrification of road transport in Norway: Scenarios and impacts

The study develops scenarios regarding the introduction of electric vehicles to the passenger vehicle fleet of Norway to reach the 2020 Norwegian greenhouse gas reduction target and a more extreme target to limit global temperature increase to two degrees. A process-based life cycle assessment approach is integrated with a temporally variable inventory model to evaluate the environmental impacts of these scenarios. The authors find that greenhouse gases in the reference scenario increase by 10% in 2020 in comparison to 2012; while for the more intensive improvements in conventional vehicles, this increase is reduced to 2%. For electric vehicles deployment scenarios, although the fleet share will reduce the tailpipe greenhouse gas emissions by 8–26%, with the upper end representing the two-degree reduction target, emissions reductions over the entire life cycle are only 3–15%. Electric vehicles also reduce emissions of NOx, SO2 and particulates reducing acidification, smog formation and particulate formation impacts, however, with addition of large numbers of electric vehicles significant trade-offs in toxicity impacts are found.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2013.09.002
• Record URL:
  • http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1361920913001211
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Singh, Bhawna
  • Strømman, Anders H
• Publication Date: 2013-12

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 106-111
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment
  • Volume: 25
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 1361-9209
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/13619209

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air quality management; Climate change; Electric vehicles; Environmental impacts; Greenhouse gases; Life cycle analysis; Nitrogen oxides; Particulates; Sulfur dioxide
• Geographic Terms: Norway
• Subject Areas: Energy; Environment; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Vehicles and Equipment; I15: Environment; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01502722
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 31 2013 7:28AM