Journal
TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART C-EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
Volume 25, Issue -, Pages 238-249Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.trc.2012.06.003
Keywords
Life cycle analysis; Australian driving; Passenger vehicles; Hybrid vehicles; Electric vehicles
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- Advanced Centre for Automotive Research and Testing
- Melbourne Energy Institute
- Australian Research Council [FT0991117, FT100100538]
- Australian Research Council [FT0991117] Funding Source: Australian Research Council
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This paper is the first of a two part study which quantifies the economic and greenhouse performance of conventional, hybrid and fully electric passenger vehicles operating in Australian driving conditions. This first study focuses on the total cost of vehicle ownership. Two vehicle sizes are considered, Class-E and Class-B, which bracket the large majority of passenger vehicles on Australian roads. Simulation models of baseline production, conventional vehicles are first developed. These models are then systematically altered to obtain the fuel and/or electricity consumption of equivalent mild hybrid, parallel hybrid, plug-in hybrid and fully electric vehicles. The total operating cost of each vehicle is then calculated, and the vehicle production costs are estimated by decomposing the vehicles into their major constituent parts. This enables the total cost of vehicle ownership to be estimated, taking particular account of variations in fuel, electricity and battery prices. (c) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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