Comparison of financial and external costs related to the use of selected electric and conventional passenger cars – the example of Poland

Abstract

Since the early 1990s, more and more restrictive car emission standards have been successively introduced, and since 2015, targets of CO2 emission have also been in force. Even though these measures are effective in decreasing the emission of nitrogen oxides (NOx), particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10), non-methane volatile organic compounds (NMVOC) and also CO2 in recent years in the European Union (EU), the European Commission more and more emphatically stresses the necessity of evolution of the conventional road transport towards electromobility.

Keywords

• electric cars
• hybrids
• conventional cars
• financial costs
• external costs
• pollution