Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has put the whole world in a great lockdown and greatly changed our lives. The lockdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has greatly affected the transportation industry in China. In this paper, energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions of fuel vehicles and battery electric vehicles in China during the COVID-19 pandemic was estimated and analyzed. The impact of COVID-19 pandemic was analyzed. The study period is taken from September 2019 to April 2020, and the period from September 2018 to August 2019 is taken for comparison. Moreover, energy consumption and CO2 emissions of fuel vehicles during SARS epidemic was also analyzed. The related study period is taken from January 2003 to August 2003. The results show COVID-19 has a much larger impact on transportation energy consumption and CO2 emissions than SARS. After the COVID-19 pandemic, energy conservation and emission reduction still have a long way to go. Determining the energy consumption and emissions in transportation sector during the COVID-19 pandemic will provide the government with a reference for future energy conservation and emission reduction in transportation sector and the further promotion of battery electric vehicles.
Highlights
Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19), which emerged in Wuhan, China in December 2019 [1], has been expanding since the beginning of 2020 and was declared a pandemic on March 11th, 2020 by World Health Organization (WHO)
Due to the impact of the pandemic in some regions, and the relaxation of the national policy on electric vehicles during the pandemic period, which has caused a certain impact on the fuel vehicle market, it is difficult for the energy consumption and CO2 emissions of fuel vehicles to return to the state before the pandemic in a short time
The COVID19 pandemic was effectively controlled in China, and energy consumption and CO2 emissions of fuel vehicles have rebounded. It can be seen from the data that the energy consumption of fuel vehicles in April did not reach the level before the COVID-19 outbreak, while in April both mileage and energy consumption (CO2 emissions) of new energy vehicles, which are represented by battery electric vehicles, have reached the state before the COVID-19 outbreak
Summary
Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19), which emerged in Wuhan, China in December 2019 [1], has been expanding since the beginning of 2020 and was declared a pandemic on March 11th, 2020 by World Health Organization (WHO). The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered an unprecedented global health and economic crisis which has changed our lives It has put the whole world in a great lockdown. In addition to its impact on economic activity and energy consumption, COVID-19 pandemic has greatly contributed to the environmental improvement, especially in the countries and territories which have taken lockdown and confinement measures strictly [5]. The lockdown was conducted one day before Chinese New Year’s Eve, a major travel day for people planning to return home for the holidays This has greatly affected the transportation industry in China. In this paper, energy consumption (EC) and carbon dioxide emissions (CDE) of fuel vehicles (FV) and Battery electric vehicles (BEV) in China during the COVID-19 pandemic are calculated and analyzed. Energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions of fuel vehicles and battery electric vehicles in China during the COVID-19 pandemic
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