Electric Vehicle Assessment and Leveraging of Unified models toward AbatemenT of Emissions (EVALUATE)

Vehicle electrification is currently considered one of the most attractive means of decarbonizing major segments of the transportation sector and can also directly contribute to improvements in urban air quality and public health. In spite of substantial progress and proactive policy support, the environmental impacts of electric vehicles (EVs) under deep deployment scenarios is poorly understood. In future scenarios where EVs demand a double-digit share of available electric power, marginal CO2 intensity during (off-peak) EV charging times will typically be higher than annual average CO2 rates from the bulk power grid, upon which many current studies base their projections. This research will explore this risk of diminishing returns at high penetration rates, and will help characterize a kind of “Goldilocks” condition for intermediate term EV deployment. That is, it will afford opportunities to take advantage of excess capacity at low CO2 intensity, and provide quantitative guidance for the research community and policymakers regarding optimal rates of EV growth, net benefits, public infrastructure investment and priority, fiscal incentives, and utility resource planning. The project will heavily leverage the team’s unique datasets and will integrate high fidelity sub-system models that govern vehicle energy consumption, travel demands, and temporal emission profiles associated electric power generation dispatch. While initially based on regional case studies, the integrated modeling and methodologies will be scalable and broadly adaptable for conducting similar analyses in other regions.

• Record URL:
  https://ncst.ucdavis.edu/project/electric-vehicle-assessment-and-leveraging-unified-models-toward-abatement-emissions

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $120000
• Contract Numbers:

  DOT 69A3551747114

• Sponsor Organizations:

  National Center for Sustainable Transportation

  University of California, Davis
  Davis, CA  United States 

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta

  790 Atlantic Drive
  Atlanta, GA  United States  30332-0355
• Managing Organizations:

  National Center for Sustainable Transportation

  University of California, Davis
  Davis, CA  United States 

  Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta

  790 Atlantic Drive
  Atlanta, GA  United States  30332-0355
• Project Managers:

  Iacobucci, Lauren

• Performing Organizations:

  National Center for Sustainable Transportation

  University of California, Davis
  Davis, CA  United States 

  Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta

  School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  790 Atlantic Drive
  Atlanta, GA  United States  30332-0355
• Principal Investigators:

  Simmons, Richard

  Rodgers, Michael

• Start Date: 20210301
• Expected Completion Date: 20220930
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Carbon dioxide; Electric power generation; Electric vehicles; Energy consumption; Environmental impacts; Market penetration; Pollutants; Travel demand
• Subject Areas: Energy; Environment; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01769374
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: National Center for Sustainable Transportation
• Contract Numbers: DOT 69A3551747114
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Apr 12 2021 3:48PM