The transportation industry accounts for 24% of worldwide CO2 emissions from fuel burning, with road transport accounting for over three-fourths of total transport emissions in 2013. Plans to minimize these emissions are increasingly reliant on large-scale electrification of transportation. Meanwhile, the energy industry is rapidly adopting renewable electricity and energy storage. Electric vehicles (EVs) may help transform transportation and energy via vehicle-grid integration, fair access to zero-emission fuels, and more sustainable transit and shared mobility options. Concrete Initiatives for E-mobility are required across areas.
The World Resource Institute’s (WRI) Electric Mobility team works on 8 Concrete Initiatives for E-mobility ecosystem:
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Clean Energy, Resilience, and Electric Vehicles determine the goals of Concrete Initiatives for E-mobility
The widespread deployment of Electric Vehicles (EVs) will result in huge increased power consumption. WRI works with major industry players to facilitate sustainable energy integration via vehicle-to-grid integration technologies. This entails working with electricity providers, regulators, facility managers, and end users to ensure that new electric fleets have robust and dependable power supply.
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Policy Interventions and Road-mapping for Concrete Initiatives for E-mobility
Policymakers must understand what it takes for EVs and other zero-emission technology to replace conventional vehicle fleets as the transportation industry decarbonizes. WRI assists in the construction of roadmaps, economic analyses, and modeling to examine the long-term effect of various EV adoption scenarios and policy suggestions to accomplish them.
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Electrification of Fleets
WRI assists governments and corporations in scaling up electrification, with an emphasis on electrifying shared and high-mileage fleets. It collaborates with cities and industries to offer technical help for the establishment of EV finance methods, utility involvement, analysis, and planning documents.
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Long-Term E-Mobility
Through the “Avoid-Shift-Improve” approach, WRI seeks to ensure that EVs are part of an integrated, sustainable, and equitable transportation system that reduces private car usage, improves air quality, and improves road safety.
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Comprehensive Climate Planning
WRI assists cities in identifying decarbonization options across all sectors, including transportation, which accounts for a significant portion of municipal emissions. It also promotes modal changes and the use of e-mobility to enhance the economics of public transit and other modes of transportation.
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Transition in an Equitable Manner
Equity is a major component of our commitment to guarantee that everyone benefits from the e-mobility revolution. WRI collaborates with allies to amplify the voices of historically marginalized and underrepresented communities, ensure fair and equitable policies and regulations, low-cost charging infrastructure and transportation options reach underserved communities, and a just transition for impacted fossil-fuel-based industries and staff.
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Purchase Behavior
WRI’s Living Lab for Equitable Climate Action conducts behavioral research to better understand how to maximize EV customer behavior, including purchase and charging choices. However, consumer behavior has an unexplored potential to improve the advantages of EVs even further.
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Long-lasting materials
Building on WRI’s work in mining, water, and land use, we at WRI promote the sustainable and ethical procurement of materials. These are needed in the e-mobility transition, responsible recycling, and re-use of abandoned materials. It collaborates closely with governments, manufacturers, and supply chain partners to promote all chances to reduce additional environmental harm. WRI works in each of these areas. The purpose is to ensure that EV adoption decreases emissions, increases access, and enhances the quality of life in the transportation and energy sectors.
