THERMAL SCIENCE

International Scientific Journal

Đorđe T. Petrović

,

Dalibor R. Pešić

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Maja M. Petrović

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Radomir Mijailović

ELECTRIC CARS: ARE THEY SOLUTION TO REDUCE CO2 EMISSION?

ABSTRACT
Reducing CO2 emission is one of the major environmental challenges for transportation. One way to solve this problem is to replace old cars that use fossil fuels (petrol, diesel) with new electric cars. In this paper, the existing model for calculating well-to-wheels CO2 emission during the life cycle of the car (fossil fuel car and electric car) is upgraded. The developed model is used for comparing optimal lifetime and optimal car’s kilometers driven during a lifetime in the replacement process of a fossil fuel car with a new electric car. We find that reducing CO2 emission depends on the type of fossil fuel, and the weight of fossil fuel cars and electric cars. Changing petrol fossil fuel cars with lower weight electric cars have the greatest potential for reducing CO2 emission. However, the introduction of electric cars does not achieve a significant reduction of CO2 emission in countries where electricity is primarily produced in thermal power plants, i. e. in countries with a high emission factor of electricity production. [Projects of the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Grant no. TR 36010, Grant no. TR 36022 and Grant no. TR 36027]
KEYWORDS
CO2, emission, life cycle, electric car, fossil fuel car
PAPER SUBMITTED: 2019-12-18
PAPER REVISED: 2020-02-18
PAPER ACCEPTED: 2020-02-22
PUBLISHED ONLINE: 2020-03-08
DOI REFERENCE: https://doi.org/10.2298/TSCI191218103P
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THERMAL SCIENCE YEAR 2020, VOLUME 24, ISSUE Issue 5, PAGES [2879 - 2889]
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