IMPACT OF RENEWABLE ENERGY INTEGRATION ON THE OVERALL CARBON FOOTPRINT AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY OF THE AUTOMOTIVE SECTOR
Devang Desai Desai
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Abstract
The idea of integrating renewable energy in the automotive sector has surfaced in recent years. Most governments around the globe have already taken the initiative to promote specifically electric vehicles and impose a ban on conventional fuel vehicles, resulting an increase in demand for electricity, which has become the fundamental reason of generating electricity from various new sources i.e. unconventional sources (Solar energy, Wind energy, nuclear energy, etc.). The current trends of shifting towards electric vehicles is a topic of conflicting opinions. Some believe that the impact on the environment caused by the automotive sector would decrease by the adaption EV technology while others consider it as the process of shifting towards more hazardous environment. In this reportthesis a brief review of Electric vehicles and their effects of Renewable Energy Source (RES) integration on environment is presented. Additionally, a detailed comparison of the impacts of EVs vs Conventional Fuel Vehicles (CFV) is presented. This document examines the existing body of literature pertaining to electric vehicles (EVs), the electrical grid, and the integration of renewable energy. It explores and elucidates the fundamental methodologies and underlying suppositions employed in the literature. Multiple scholarly investigations have appraised the capacity of electric vehicles (EVs) to integrate renewable energy sources. The existing literature strongly suggests that EVs have the potential to substantially diminish the surplus of renewable energy generated within an electric system.
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