Abstract: | To investigate the impact of different power batteries on energy saving and emission reduction in new energy freight trucks, this paper selected a new energy freight truck as the research object, and established a vehicle life cycle evaluation model using GaBi software for three commonly used power batteries.Energy savings and emission reductions are analyzed across five stages, i. e. raw material acquisition,production and manufacturing, assembly, operation, and scrap recycling. The environmental impacts including the global warming potential (GWP) are quantitatively calculated and normalized. The results show that coal dominates the fossil energy consumption of vehicles equipped with three types of batteries,and the main environmental emission is CO. The energy consumption and pollutant emissions of pure electric vehicles are concentrated during the operation stage. After comprehensive comparison, the whole life cycle energy saving and emission reduction effect of the vehicle equipped with ternary lithium battery is found to be the most significant, while the vehicle equipped with lithium manganate battery exhibits the least favorable performance. Increasing the use of clean energy, reducing the consumption of fossil energy for power production and improving the recovery rate can significantly reduce pollutant emissions. |