Biofuels or hybrid vehicles? A scenario perspective in China

ABSTRACT

Rapid growth of passenger vehicles considerably increases greenhouse gas emission and fuel consumption in China. This paper thereby intends to analyze the potentials of the mitigation of energy use and environmental emission in China’s road passenger transportation sector by assessing two available approaches, i.e. biofuel and hybrid vehicle strategies. It was found that biofuel is effective for emission reduction in only three subsubsectors. A synthesis strategy is thereby proposed to meet the state policy goals.

KEYWORDS:

• Biofuel
• China
• hybrid
• road passenger transport sector

Funding

This work was supported by NSFC 71273261, and 71573258.

Notes

¹ HDB and HDLB subsubsector don’t have diesel vehicles.

² Reduction of carbon equivalence and fuel consumption in the LDB subsubsector is not obvious in Figure 2 since the proportion is relatively too small to be distinguished.

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by NSFC 71273261, and 71573258.