Electric Cars Case Study
We can sum-up the production side emissions of electric cars with this graph. Here we see the higher amount of emissions per electric car, although this can naturally be compensated during the lower emissions during the life-cycle of this car. To note that in case the battery has to be replaced during the life-time of the vehicle, the amount will increase to 12,5t of CO2 per car, so more than the double of a gasoline car.
2.2 Source of energy.
Here we get to one of the biggest problems of electrics cars: the way we charge them. An electric car will be qualified as green for the environment if the way the energy is produced is green as well. Actually, energy is produced of 3 different sources: nuclear, renewable energy and finally coal. …show more content…
The previous batteries were made of plumb and their recycling was liable to many damages because the benefits were smaller the cost of recycling. Now batteries are made of lithium because they are much more efficient than those made of plumb (can exceed 200Km/h). And the problem of recycling with them is that because we cannot simply drop them of in the nature, we have to recycle them, since the components inside are dangerous for the environment. Their recycling is very complicated and expensive to recover those …show more content…
We have highlighted that the main issue of the electricity was that it was impossible to store it. However, the electric car is also made of a battery! It is thus possible to imagine that the battery of the electric car is smart: the cars would be able to serve as a safety stock to limitate the variations of consumption. When the answer is that demand is weak, such as during the night, the electric cars are fully charged up to avoid overproductions. On the opposite, during the brief peak of demands, they would be able to discharge a few KW/h on the network to erase those peaks.
The arrival of electric cars goes hand in hand with the improvement of the energetic park of the country and investment in renewable sources of energy. Still in France, EDF (the company that is a leader in electricity generation) decided to modernize its thermal park by investing in combined cycle gas turbines. With this investment, some of dangerous particles will be reduced as follow: by 2 times for CO2, by 3 times for NO and no more so2 compared to classical mean of production such as coal and
2.2 Source of energy.
Here we get to one of the biggest problems of electrics cars: the way we charge them. An electric car will be qualified as green for the environment if the way the energy is produced is green as well. Actually, energy is produced of 3 different sources: nuclear, renewable energy and finally coal. …show more content…
The previous batteries were made of plumb and their recycling was liable to many damages because the benefits were smaller the cost of recycling. Now batteries are made of lithium because they are much more efficient than those made of plumb (can exceed 200Km/h). And the problem of recycling with them is that because we cannot simply drop them of in the nature, we have to recycle them, since the components inside are dangerous for the environment. Their recycling is very complicated and expensive to recover those …show more content…
We have highlighted that the main issue of the electricity was that it was impossible to store it. However, the electric car is also made of a battery! It is thus possible to imagine that the battery of the electric car is smart: the cars would be able to serve as a safety stock to limitate the variations of consumption. When the answer is that demand is weak, such as during the night, the electric cars are fully charged up to avoid overproductions. On the opposite, during the brief peak of demands, they would be able to discharge a few KW/h on the network to erase those peaks.
The arrival of electric cars goes hand in hand with the improvement of the energetic park of the country and investment in renewable sources of energy. Still in France, EDF (the company that is a leader in electricity generation) decided to modernize its thermal park by investing in combined cycle gas turbines. With this investment, some of dangerous particles will be reduced as follow: by 2 times for CO2, by 3 times for NO and no more so2 compared to classical mean of production such as coal and