Overcoming Barriers to Electric-Vehicle Deployment: Interim Report
The Board on Energy and Environmental Systems, part of the National Academies Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences (DEPS) has released a report that explores near-term options to addressing market barriers that are slowing the purchase of electric vehicles and hindering the deployment of supporting infrastructure.
The report focuses on the light-duty vehicle sector in the United States and restricts its discussion of electric vehicles to plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs), which include battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs). The common feature of these vehicles is that their batteries are charged by being plugged into the electric grid. BEVs differ from PHEVs because they operate solely on electricity stored in a battery (that is, there is no other power source); PHEVs have internal combustion engines that can supplement the electric power train.
DEPS, like TRB, is a division of the National Academies, which include the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council.
This Summary Last Modified On: 8/5/2013