The goal of this report is to assess the environmental impacts of Volkswagen Passat gasoline-fueled, flexifuel E85-fueled, and NExBTL biodiesel-fueled cars and Tesla Model S 85 electric car in the United States.
Environmental Impacts Assessed
The report quantifies the following environmental impacts:
- Global warming potential (GWP)
- Depletion potential of the stratospheric ozone layer (ODP)
- Acidification potential (AP)
- Eutrophication potential (EP)
- Air toxicity (AT)
- Water toxicity (WT)
- Hazardous waste production (HWP)
- Particulate emissions
- SO2 emissions
- NOx emissions
- Methane emissions
- N2O emissions
- Non-methane hydrocarbon emissions
- CO emissions
- Creation of high-level radioactive waste (HLW)
- Creation of medium- and low-level radioactive waste (MLW, HLLW)
- Petroleum consumption
- Energy depletion
Certain important environmental impacts are not quantified in this report, including the effect on water tables and the loss of biodiversity.
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