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Energy PolicyVolume 52, January 2013, Pages 135-145

The emergence of an electric mobility trajectory(Article)

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  • aInternational Centre for Integrated assessment and Sustainable development (ICIS), Maastricht Univ., P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, Netherlands
  • bSão Paulo School of Business (EAESP), Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV), Rua Itapeva, 474 - 8 andar, 01332-000 São Paulo (SP), Brazil
  • cICIS and UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, Netherlands

Abstract

In this paper, we analyse the emergence of a trajectory of electric moblity. We describe developments in electric vehicles before and after 2005. The central thesis of the paper is that electric mobility has crossed a critical threshold and is benefitting from various developments whose influence can be expected to grow in importance: high oil prices, carbon constraints, and rise of organised car sharing and intermodality. We find that the development of vehicle engine technology depends on changes in (fueling) infrastructure, changes in mobility, changes in the global car market, evolution of energy prices, climate policy, and changes in the electricity sector. Special attention is given to interaction of technological alternatives: how these work out for the future of battery electric vehicles, hybrid electric vehicles and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.

Author keywords

Electric carsFuture pathwaysSocio-technical transition

Indexed keywords

Engineering uncontrolled termsBattery electric vehiclesCar marketsCarbon constraintsClimate policyCritical thresholdElectric carsElectric mobilityElectricity sectorEnergy pricesFuture pathwaysHydrogen fuel cell vehiclesIntermodalityOil PricesSociotechnicalTechnological alternativesVehicle engine
Engineering controlled terms:FuelingHybrid vehiclesHydrogen fuels
Engineering main heading:Electric vehicles
GEOBASE Subject Index:automobileelectric vehicleelectricity industryenergy marketvehicle component
  • ISSN: 03014215
  • CODEN: ENPYA
  • Source Type: Journal
  • Original language: English
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2012.04.024
  • Document Type: Article

  Dijk, M.; International Centre for Integrated assessment and Sustainable development (ICIS), Maastricht Univ., P.O. Box 616, Netherlands;
© Copyright 2013 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

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