Abstract
With increasing pollution in the environment, there is a need of sustainable generation and utilization of energy. Transport is the technologically most challenging major contributor to environmental pollution. With increasing global adaption of renewable energy generation, if somehow, the transportation energy supply can be shifted to renewable sources; then, it will be major leap in mitigating the impact of pollution on human beings. Battery electric vehicle provides the most feasible solution right now, which has a developed and demonstrated infrastructure in terms of technology development and fuel, in this case electricity, distribution network. With decreasing tariffs of renewable energy and new and cheap battery technologies, it is self-evident that the future has electric vehicles and renewable power generation. This chapter provides the insight into the battery electric vehicle technology, needed resources and the economics which is developing around this technology.
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Kumar, P., Srivastava, K.N., Dhar, A. (2018). Role of Electric Vehicles in Future Road Transport. In: Gautam, A., De, S., Dhar, A., Gupta, J., Pandey, A. (eds) Sustainable Energy and Transportation . Energy, Environment, and Sustainability. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7509-4_4
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