Environmental Assessment of Lightweight Electric Vehicles

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Egede, Patricia (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: e-Book
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : 2017.
Imprint: Springer,
Edition:1st ed. 2017.
Series:Sustainable Production, Life Cycle Engineering and Management,
Subjects:
Automotive engineering.
Transportation engineering.
Traffic engineering.
Sustainability.
Automobile industry and trade.
Energy policy.
Energy and state.
Automotive Engineering.
Transportation Technology and Traffic Engineering.
Automotive Industry.
Energy Policy, Economics and Management.
Online Access:Full-text access
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.

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