Last modified: 2014-09-11
Abstract
to the comparison of few electric vehicles (EVs) with their internal
combustion engine (ICE) counterparts, suffering from an unclear definition
of the functional unit. This bias has potentially significant repercussion on
the assessment of the environmental consequences of mobility policies and
objectives fixed by European states. This paper aims at proposing a multiagent
model in order to assess the vehicle market of Luxembourg and how
the ICE vehicles are going to be replaced by EVs. This model can thus help
us to define the functional unit associated with electric mobility, whether it
is applied to individual, company or shared cars and feed consequential
LCA of policy and implementation strategies.
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