Life Cycle Assessment of Electric Vehicle Power Battery

Abstract:

Based on Life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology, this paper analyzes the total energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHGs), NO_x, SO_x and PM emissions during material production and battery production processes of nickel-metal hydride battery (NiMH), lithium iron phosphate battery (LFP), lithium cobalt dioxide battery (LCO) and lithium nickel manganese cobalt oxide (NMC) battery, assuming that the batteries have same energy capacity. The results showed that environmental performance of LFP battery was better than the other three, and that of NiMH battery was the worst. The experimental results also showed the total energy consumption of LFP battery was 2.8 times of NiMH battery and GHGs emission was 3.2 times during material production, and the total energy consumption was 7.6 times of NIMH battery and GHGs emission was 6.6 times during battery production

• Periodical: Materials Science Forum (Volume 847)
• Pages: 403-410
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.847.403
• Online since: March 2016
• Authors: Qiang Lu, Peng Fei Wu, Wan Xia Shen, Xue Chao Wang, Bo Zhang, Cheng Wang
• Keywords: Energy Consumption, GHGs Emission, Life Cycle Assessment, Power Battery

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