The main conclusions of the LCA of the electric vehicle
Life Cycle Assessment of Electric Vehicles

The first notable difference between the LCA results for an electric vehicle and those for a combustion-powered vehicle concerns the distribution of impacts along the life cycle: whereas for a combustion-powered vehicle, around 80% of impacts occur in the use phase, for an electric vehicle, the manufacturing phase – vehicle and batteries – contributes over 50% of the total impact. Figure 2 shows the breakdown of the contribution of the various life cycle phases to climate change for the electric vehicle (EV, left) and...