The eLCAr (E-Mobility Life Cycle Assessment Recommendations) project aimed at supporting the process of assessing the environmental impact of electric vehicles. In order to do so a set of guidelines derived from the ILCD Handbook and adapted to the specific requirements of the projects of the Green Cars PPP were to be designed. This set of guidelines wouldl be benchmarked according to a set of criteria such as applicability, practicability and ease of use and disseminated in an up to date fashion relying on interactive and online training materials.

The guidelines should answer questions of how to treat ambiguities in the analysis of all aspects of electric mobility. They also should provide a coherent benchmark framework enabling an ecological comparison of electric vehicles with other technologies such as bio-fuel propelled cars and hydrogen-based mobility. The project work plan should also reflect the broad range of topics such as battery and electric component production, typical vehicle utilization and driving cycles, interaction between electricity storage, power generation and grid services, as well as end of life and recycling by covering the different stages of an EVs life.

Stakeholders were tp be actively involved in the process, either by taking part in a number of input workshops or by participating in the projects advisory board, which was to ensure crucial feedback from practitioners in the industry. Special attention will be paid to the requirements of participants of the Green Car Initiative, of which some stakeholders have already declared their support for and willingness to assist the project.

Furthermore, the eLCAr project aimed to develop training materials and concepts which would facilitate a swift and sustainable diffusion of the results into the respective stakeholder groups. Thus different learning and teaching concepts from self-learning materials to an interactive online platform would be utilized to address as many different types of stakeholders and preferences as possible.