Environmentally friendly vehicles : experiences and definitions / Rolf Hagman, and Eivind Selvig.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hagman, Rolf.

Contributor:

Selvig, Eivind.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vehicles--Technological innovations.

Vehicles.

Automobiles--Environmental aspects.

Automobiles.

Physical Description:

100 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Copenhagen : Nordic Council of Ministers, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Forord

Summary

1. Background, task and approach

1.1 Background

1.2 Tasks

1.3 Approach

2. Why environmentally-friendly vehicles?

2.1 Driving Forces

3. Defining environmentally-friendly vehicles

3.1 Technologically-neutral criteria for a Low or Zero emitting Vehicle, LZV

3.2 Objections to technology neutral criteria

4. Propulsion technologies

4.1 LZV possibilities with combustion engine vehicles

4.2 LZV and electric drive

4.3 Environmentally- friendly Heavy Duty Vehicles

5. Clean Fuels and Fuel Alternatives

5.1 Fossil fuels

5.2 Renewable fuels

5.3 The Life Cycle Perspective - Well to Wheel

6.Vehicles and Environmental Product Information Schemes

6.1 EPIS, Eco labelling and environmental policy

6.2 EPIS in different countries and for different products

6.3 European Vehicles Environmental Product Information

6.4 USA Vehicles Environmental Product Information Schemes - EPIS

6.5 EPIS and eco-labelling of other products and services

7 Environmentally-friendly vehicles in the Nordic countries

7.1 Denmark

7.2 Finland

7.3 Iceland

7.4 Norway

7.5 Sweden

8. Conclusions and Recommendations

8.1 Technology-independent criteria

8.2 LZV rating - impacts on technology and size

8.3 Heavy Duty Vehicles

8.4 Experiences with environmental product information

Sammendrag

References.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

OCLC:

927472809