34.2.
Electrical Vehicles and the Environment Pollution
The search for vehicles with environmental benefits and energy prospects is a consequence of numerous changes, which have occurred in the society, and consequently transport systems. Today, this much is beyond controversy that the electric vehicle is the only motorised individual means of transport available, which leaves no exhaust fumes during operation an hardly creates any noise either. The electric vehicle is superior to both the gasoline engine and the diesel engine when it comes to emissions of nitrogen oxide (NOx), carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrocarbons (HC). For the particularly controversial greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide (CO2), the values for the electric vehicle are around a quarter lower than those of the combustion engine. Therefore, the introduction of the electric vehicle will reduce pollution at not only the load level but also the global level. Figure 34.2 represents contribution of electric vehicle to local and global pollution as well as towards the production of green house gas.
