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Towards E-mobility: Strengths and Weaknesses of Electric Vehicles

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One of the greatest environmental challenges worldwide is mobility. In future, increasingly sustainable solutions will be proposed and incentivized and the new technologies, like electric mobility, could (positive) influence mobility performances/habits. The paper aims at critically analyze weaknesses, strengths and application fields of the electric mobility in Italy. Specifically, the electric vehicle today has high production costs, low autonomy and not “zero” environmental impacts deriving from the production, motion and recycling of the vehicle. However, the “local emissions” are null and this pone this technology useful for urban mobility, where high population density often occurs. Furthermore, e-mobility is useful within the new forms of mobility (e.g. MaaS - mobility as a service) where micro mobility, shared mobility, urban bus fleet, freight distribution and an overall higher willingness to pay for users/operators could emphasize the strengths of e-mobility, reducing its weaknesses.

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Acknowledgment

This research was carried out within the project: “Consultazione per la revisione e il consolidamento delle linee strategiche di Ricerca e Innovazione nell’ambito di sviluppo dell’infrastruttura AV/AC Napoli-Bari - POR ASSE IV – AV/AC - 04”.

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  1. Department of Engineering, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, 81031, Aversa, Italy

    Armando Carteni & Clorinda Molitierno

  2. Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, University of Naples “Federico II”, 80125, Naples, Italy

    Ilaria Henke

  3. Department of Agriculture, University of Naples “Federico II”, 80055, Naples, Italy

    Assunta Errico

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  1. Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan

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  2. Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Naples “Frederico II”, Naples, Italy

    Flora Amato

  3. Department of Political Science, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Caserta, Italy

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Carteni, A., Henke, I., Molitierno, C., Errico, A. (2020). Towards E-mobility: Strengths and Weaknesses of Electric Vehicles. In: Barolli, L., Amato, F., Moscato, F., Enokido, T., Takizawa, M. (eds) Web, Artificial Intelligence and Network Applications. WAINA 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1150. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44038-1_126

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