Thermodynamic Analyses of Global Carbon Dioxide Reduction Perspectives in Transport

EasyChair Preprint 11387

Abstract

The world now recognises that the climate change problem forces us to rethink the technological configuration of every branch to reduce carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions. In the case of transport, it results in wide adoption of electric vehicles. However, EVs with undisputable zero emission in situ lead to excessive CO₂ emissions in the place of power generation. Thus, the broad adoption of EVs must match the current and future electricity generation capacities. A brief analysis proposed in the paper shows that current EVs with superior efficiency leads to global CO₂ emission at 141 gCO₂/km, while “grey” hydrogen fuel cell vehicle results in just 71 gCO₂/km. Furthermore, it has been shown that intensive adoption of EVs could reach the goal of CO₂ emission of 95 gCO₂/km not earlier than 2050, subject to intensive use of natural gas for electricity generation using a combined thermodynamic cycle.

Keyphrases: Emission, Hydrogen, carbon dioxide, electric vehicle, fuel cell

@booklet{EasyChair:11387,
  author    = {Vasyl Ruzaikin and Ivan Lukashov and Andrii Breus and Olena Torosian},
  title     = {Thermodynamic Analyses of Global Carbon Dioxide Reduction Perspectives in Transport},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 11387},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2023}}