E-Mobility in Europe Trends and Good Practice
Focusing on technical, policy and social/societal practices and innovations for electrified transport for personal, public and freight purposes, this book provides a state-of-the-art overview of developments in e-mobility in Europe and the West Coast of t
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Walter Leal Filho Richard Kotter Editors
E-Mobility in Europe Trends and Good Practice
Green Energy and Technology
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Walter Leal Filho Richard Kotter •
Editors
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Editors Walter Leal Filho Faculty of Life Sciences Hamburg University of Applied Sciences Hamburg Germany
ISSN 1865-3529 Green Energy and Technology ISBN 978-3-319-13193-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-13194-8
Richard Kotter Department of Geography Northumbria University Newcastle upon Tyne UK
ISSN 1865-3537
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ISBN 978-3-319-13194-8
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Preface
As European countries face growing pressure to reduce their CO2 emissions as well as urban air pollution, and generally to find ways to promote sustainable means of transport, a window of opportunity has been opened for clean and more sustainable forms of mobility. Various stakeholders such as supra-national and inter-governmental organisations, governments and their appointed agencies, regional and municipal authorities, private and public transit operators, vehicle manufacturers and the general public have become increasingly aware of and interested in the many possibilities e-mobility offers, both as a tool for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases and pollution, but also as a new (at least in recent times) and interesting type of mobility. The field of e-mobility as a whole, and the production and deployment of electrical vehicles (EV) in particular, are now widely seen as viable alternatives to traditional means of automotive production and transport/logistics provision, based on the fact that a ra
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