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Identifying the most appropriate powertrain technology for a given vehicle class and duty cycle can be beneficial to further drive down on carbon emissions. However, with a myriad of powertrain architectures that are emerging in the industry, such as those in Electric Vehicles and Hybrid Vehicles, it becomes more challenging to carry out comprehensive comparative analyses across different permutations of powertrain topologies. This has motivated the authors to research on improving the method used to compare different types of powertrain architectures, and develop a tool that can be used by practitioners for this purpose. Literature survey has indicated that whilst there have been many comparisons made between different types of powertrains, such analyses were often carried out by comparing only limited types of architectures at a time.