Reviewing the Value of Electric Vehicles in Achieving Sustainability

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Reviewing the Value of Electric Vehicles in Achieving Sustainability

by Prashobh Karunakaran   and Mohammad Shahril Osman

University of Technology Sarawak (UTS), SET CRISD, Sibu, 96000, Malaysia

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Journal of Engineering Research and Sciences, Volume 3, Issue 7, Page # 1-10, 2024; DOI: 10.55708/js0307001

Keywords: Battery Electric Vehicles (BEV), Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles (FCEV), Internal Combustion Engines (ICE), sustainability, pollution

Received: 06 May, 2024, Revised: 23 June, 2024, Accepted: 24 June, 2024, Published Online: 12 July, 2024

APA Style

Karunakaran, P., & Osman, M. S. (2024). Reviewing the value of electric vehicles in achieving sustainability. Journal of Engineering Research and Sciences, 3(7), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.55708/js0307001

Chicago/Turabian Style

Karunakaran, Prashobh, and Mohammad Shahril Osman. “Reviewing the Value of Electric Vehicles in Achieving Sustainability.” Journal of Engineering Research and Sciences 3, no. 7 (2024): 1-10. https://doi.org/10.55708/js0307001

IEEE Style

Karunakaran and M. S. Osman, “Reviewing the Value of Electric Vehicles in Achieving Sustainability,” Journal of Engineering Research and Sciences, vol. 3, no. 7, pp. 1-10, 2024, doi: 10.55708/js0307001.

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This paper aims to narrow the gap of the narratives blasted out in the media (including social media) about electric cars versus the conventional way humans have been transported over the last 100 years. The ICE industry is closely connected to the O & G because 64 % of the output of the O & G industry is utilized for the transportation industry, which ranges from motorcycles, cars, trucks, ships to airplanes. Therefore, these two large industries have a motive to curtail the expansion of the electric vehicles industry. This paper explains why the change from ICE to BEV is needed for the sustainability of human civilization because climate change has been proven to be linked to human activities. Without tailpipe emissions, electric vehicles can immediately clean up pollution in the largest cities of earth where 56 % of humanity lives. The batteries of electric vehicles can also become a citizen sponsored backup battery for the electric power grids, thereby saving even more pollution from the environment. Such a backup for the power grid is necessary for its ability to smoothen the sudden and unexpected spikes in electric consumption or tripping of generators in the power grid.