Environmental Impacts of Gasoline Scooter and Electric Scooter

This study calculated the environmental impacts of use phase of both gasoline and electric scooter using a life cycle approach. The consumer adoption and demand for electric vehicles is growing, and India has adopted and made mandatory BS VI requirements for gasoline vehicles. The functional unit adopted is 1000 km vehicle driven in an average Indian condition and impacts were assessed based on CML 2001 and ReCiPe 2016 methods using GaBi 10.5. Only the use phase of both scooters is covered by the study’s scope. The impacts were presented in terms of seven impact indicators. The findings of the present study revealed that the gasoline scooters had greater environmental consequences on three impact indicators while electric scooters had greater impacts on the remaining four. The study indicated that the utilization of renewable energy sources for generating electricity to charge e-vehicles will make them more ecologically preferred, but gasoline scooters did better in more impact indicators as a result of the adoption of BS VI rules in India.