Life Cycle Assessment Of Electric Vehicles: A Comparative Study On Environmental Impact With Conventional Automobiles

Abstract

Electric cars are being given centre stage as a parent measure for lowering GHG emissions and offering clean mobility worldwide. Environmental advantage of EVs over traditional internal combustion engine automobiles WAS9427ombiespre at a glance and mooted for the incorrect elapses of the era. Thus, an LCA environment is established to contrast EVs and ICEVs in real practice under production, use, and end-of-life. The whole idea of secondary data and LCA tools is applied in the assessment of impact categories, such as carbon emissions, depletion of resources, and energy consumption. Thus, whereas EVs tend to minimize emissions to a microscopic level during their use phase, more impacts are borne from the manufacturing-that is state-of-the-art: the battery production-it is on a significantly different scale than the ones bear on the warrant of manufacture, including production, of internal combustion engine vehicles.

From the stated above, it can be noted that the degree to which EVs can create a better environment is heavily dependent on the nature of electricity generation composing the grid, since a grid with a renewable-dominant structure contributes significantly lower life cycle emissions. Battery recycling and second-life utilization are thus seen as one of the means of reducing manufacturing impacts. The comparative analysis adds to the vast literature on sustainable mobility by offering important results on the trade-offs and contextualities of EV adoption.