The Department of Energy's Technology Integration Program has enlisted the expertise of Argonne to develop a tool to examine both the environmental and economic costs and benefits of alternative fuel and advanced vehicles (AFVs). Argonne developed the Alternative Fuel Life-Cycle Environmental and Economic Transportation (AFLEET) Tool to help stakeholders estimate petroleum use, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, air pollutant emissions, and cost of ownership of light-duty and heavy-duty vehicles.
AFLEET includes...
- The AFLEET spreadsheet that provides detailed energy, emission, and cost data for light- and heavy-duty AFVs. It has the following 4 calculators depending on the users goals:
- Simple Payback
- Total Cost of Ownership
- Idle Reduction
- AFLEET Online, which replicates the spreadsheet’s Simple Payback Calculator with a user-friendly interface and analyzes the following metrics:
- Petroleum use
- Greenhouse gas emissions
- Air pollutant emissions
- Simple payback
- The Heavy Duty Vehicle Emissions Calculator (HDVEC), which is an AFLEET-based online tool that compares NOx, PM, GHGs and funding cost-effectiveness of environmental mitigation projects for the following fuel types:
- Diesel
- Electric
- Natural Gas
- Propane
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