' Life Cycle Assessment of a Lithium Iron Phosphate (LFP) Electric Vehicle Battery in Second Life Application Scenarios,' Ioakimidis & Alberto Murillo-Marrodán & Ali Bagheri & Dimitrios Thomas & Konstantinos N. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. ' The environmental impact of Li-Ion batteries and the role of key parameters – A review,' & Baumann, Manuel & Zimmermann, Benedikt & Braun, Jessica & Weil, Marcel, 2017. Nevertheless, either using the lower or upper bounds of this range, electric vehicles result less carbon-intensive in their life cycle than corresponding diesel or petrol vehicles. The results show that there is high variability in environmental impact assessment CO 2 eq emissions per kWh of battery capacity range from 50 to 313 g CO 2 eq/kWh. In this framework, the purpose of the present literature review is to understand how large and variable the main impacts are due to automotive batteries’ life cycle, with particular attention to climate change impacts, and to support researchers with some methodological suggestions in the field of automotive batteries’ LCA. For this reason, many decision makers and researchers wondered whether energy and environmental impacts from batteries production, can exceed the benefits generated during the vehicle’s use phase. Automotive batteries constitute, together with the powertrain, the main differences between electric vehicles and internal combustion engine vehicles. We also offer to implement smaller features to make sure you get exactly the software you need.In electric and hybrid vehicles Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs), batteries play a central role and are in the spotlight of scientific community and public opinion. In several cases openLCA was used as a basis to build a customized software solution, with web or desktop applications. A “ Guided Case Study” including a training is the perfect start to using openLCA in a professional environment. The report feature of openLCA where a complete html report is created is particularly interesting for publishing and sharing results.įor businesses who have been working with other LCA software, we are helping migrate existing models to openLCA and assure a seamless transition.

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