Electric Vehicles and Climate Change Mitigation Strategies

Electric Vehicles and Climate Change Mitigation Strategies

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Climate Change and the Promise of Electric Vehicles
Nowhere in human history has humanity so irrevocably changed the climate than in the past century alone and with devastating consequences (Abram et al., 2016; Danneyrolles, Arseneault & Bergeron, 2016). The post-Industrialisation society has been responsible for unprecedented anthropogenic climate change that is rapidly morphing into an existential threat (Carrington, 2016). Few anthropogenic factors are as responsible for the devastating mechanisms accelerating climate change than air pollution of which motor vehicle emissions are especially significant (Pachauri et al., 2014). Indeed, the transport industry is responsible for 23…