Study projects future EVs to have 30-70% lower environmental impacts that current EVs when changes to electricity generation are considered
Numerous studies have tackled the future environmental impact of battery-electric vehicles; the resulting assessments are highly uncertain. Now, a team of researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institut in Switzerland, with colleagues at Leiden University (Netherlands) and PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency have used Monte Carlo and global sensitivity analysis to quantify parametric uncertainty of the impacts. They also included two additional factors that have not yet been addressed in the field, they said. The first is changes to driving patterns due to the introduction of autonomous and connected vehicles. The second is the impacts of changes to the electricity sector on the environmental burdens of producing and recharging future EVs.
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