Life Cycle Assessment on CO_2 Emissions of Fuels for Next-Generation Vehicles

摘要

The amount of environmental load emissions in each stage of each vehicle, from raw materials mining and material production to disposal and recycle, is estimated on an alternative vehicle, a hybrid vehicle and a fuel cell vehicle as next-generation vehicles. So their environmental impact in their total life cycle is assessed using the concept of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). In this study specially noticing their fuel production processes, from raw materials mining to consumption, the cutting down potential of environmental load of each next-generation vehicle.