Life cycle assessment of V2X

Research Project, 2023 – 2027

This project will apply life cycle assessment (LCA) to explore the environmental impact of enabling interaction between vehicles and external electricity systems, commonly referred to as vehicle-togrid (V2G) or more broadly, vehicle-to-x (V2X). This includes both investigating feasible technical design solutions, with focus on power electronics and batteries, and how methodological selections influence the LCA results, and specifically the role system boundaries, functions included and allocation problems. 

Chalmers is the academic researching partner of this PhD. student project, and Volvo Cars is the main industrial partner. Vattenfall represent the power industry. The project will gather information by literature reviews, workshops, and cross-disciplinary collaboration within SEC covering three theme areas. LCA models will be constructed using well-established software in combination with existing LCA inventory databases and give special attention to climate change impacts and metal resource use, although a broad set of impacts will be assessed. The project will run over 4 years, with a total budget is 8 MSEK, whereof 50% is industrial and academic in-kind, i.e., the requested cash funding amount to 4 MSEK.