Electrification of the car – Will the momentum last?

The geography of sustainability transitions: Contours of an emerging theme

“…While acknowledging that sustainability is essentially a global concept (Van den Bergh et al, 2011), the prevailing empirical situation in these studies seemed to support a linear diffusion view on the geographical spread of environmental innovations: sustainable alternatives are developed in countries with an environmentally enlightened constituency, and subsequently diffuse to other countries. Prominent examples include the lead market hypothesis elaborated recently in this journal (Rennings, 2015) and large-scale policy programs in electric mobility (Bakker and Farla 2015) and renewable energy in countries like Germany (Jacobsson and Lauber, 2006).…”

The Bumpy Road toward Low-Energy Urban Mobility: Case Studies from Two UK Cities

“…The number of studies using the MLP in a passenger transport context is increasing rapidly (e.g., [19,20,39,[46][47][48]), although most focus on specific niches, such as electric vehicles [43,48,49]. Nonetheless, at least two studies have discussed a broader range of niches in contemporary passenger mobility.…”

Electric vehicles and the future of personal mobility in the United Kingdom

“…However, this has changed in recent years. All major car manufacturers now produce EVs, suggesting that the industry has 'picked its winning technology' (Bakker and Farla, 2015). Moreover, recent sales across the developed world, while still modest, suggest uptake is accelerating beyond the demonstration phase (Bakker and Farla, 2015;Nykvist and Nilsson, 2015).…”

“…All major car manufacturers now produce EVs, suggesting that the industry has 'picked its winning technology' (Bakker and Farla, 2015). Moreover, recent sales across the developed world, while still modest, suggest uptake is accelerating beyond the demonstration phase (Bakker and Farla, 2015;Nykvist and Nilsson, 2015). There is undoubtedly increased hype around EVs, with the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countires (OPEC) increasing their 2040 forecast for plug-in EVs by nearly 500 per cent from 2015 to 2016, and the International Energy Agency more than doubling its central forecast for 2030 EV fleet size (BNEF, 2017).…”