Steering Towards Eco-Conscious Mobility: Assessing the Energy and Environmental Impacts of Electric Propulsion Motors

There is a growing demand to switch to more environmentally friendly forms of transportation due to the recent transformations in the automotive industry amidst the global warming concerns. Vehicles with internal combustion engines have significantly increased pollution of air, water, and land. On the other hand, it is hypothesized that electric motor-powered vehicles will reduce the emissions. However, the contribution of the vehicles’ various phases to pollution varies over their lifecycle [5]. A complete life cycle assessment (LCA) is necessary to obtain a more comprehensive and objective understanding of the extent to which each phase of the vehicle life cycle contributes to pollution. Our study will analyze and compare the energy consumption and CO
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emissions of select available propulsion motors from raw material production, manufacturing, assembly, operations, and end of life [8]. The findings from the analysis reveal that the raw material extraction and use phase are major contributors.