The Electric Vehicle Transition (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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This book explores in depth the engineering, industrial, economic, environmental, and fiscal dimensions of the electrification transition, while highlighting the constraints and tradeoffs involved when formulating and implementing public policies.

The transition from vehicles with internal combustion engine to electric vehicles is often viewed as mainly a technological adjustment driven by the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In reality, it represents a far broader transformation of the automobile industry and the ancillary economic sectors that support it. Electrification requires large inputs of critical minerals, enhanced digital technologies, and new plants for manufacturing batteries and electric powertrains. To meet higher projected electricity demand, generation, transmission, and storage capacities must also be increased. The revolution is reshaping supply chains, industrial organization, employment, and geopolitical relationships. Households face new challenges for vehicle ownership, driving range, and access to charging infrastructure. Vehicle manufacturers, workers, and automotive-industry dependent regions face potential economic losses reminiscent of those experienced earlier by coal and other declining industries. Governments must seek alternatives to taxes on fossil fuels to fund national, regional, and local budgets while simultaneously facing potential opposition to higher taxes and charges and demands for economic assistance by adversely affected socioeconomic groups and regions.

The book is addressed both to a professional audience-students, researchers, policymakers, and industry professionals-as well as readers wishing to understand the many dimensions of the transition.