Comprehensive Methodology for Comparative Environmental Assessment of Vehicles

Abstract

The negative impact of transport on the environment and the ways of ecological mobility are analysed in this paper. It is also highlighted that publicly recognised ecological vehicles – electric cars – are not absolutely “clean”. Thus, based on research conducted by other scientists, recommendations of the EU institutions and other sources have developed a universal and comprehensive methodology for vehicle environmental assessment, which allows estimating the vehicle, energy consumption, CO2 footprint during production and operation, and travel costs. The collected car data allowed us to identify the most environmentally friendly cars that have become Nissan Leaf, Renault Zoe and Hyundai Ioniq Plug-in, Honda E Advance, Toyota Yaris Hybrid.