Dear:

You can find information about the policy for electric cars in Brazil on the links:

-Ministry of the Environment: http://www.mma.gov.br/clima/energia/veiculos-eletricos

- Itaipu: http://www.itaipu.gov.br/ve/

- Paper of Institute of Environment and Energy -University of São Paulo, USP, Brazil (in Portuguese): http://www.advancesincleanerproduction.net/fourth/files/sessoes/6B/6/wittmann_et_al_work.pdf

I hope that  it helps You.

Best Regards,

Vanessa

Hi Eric,

You could find lot's of infomation about the policy for emobility in Germany on the link:

http://www.bmvi.de/SharedDocs/DE/Artikel/IR/bundesminister-ramsauer-und-bundesminister-bruederle-gruenden-gemeinsame-geschaeftsstelle-elektrom.html?nn=36210

From this side you can find additional links. Unfortunately most of them in German.

Best regards,

Georg

Hi Eric,

There are quite a few developments with regard to electric transport currently and my response centres on e-bikes - which account for the overwhelming majority of e-vehicles currently in operation.

Some papers that deal with the topic you mentioned are included below:

The safety of electric bikes compared to regular ones: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001457514002668

The experience of e-bike users in the US:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214367X13000185

The experience of e-bike users in Australia:

http://www.atrf.info/papers/2013/2013_johnson_rose.pdf

Rose G (2012) E-Bikes and Urban Transportation: Emerging Issues and Unresolved Questions. Transportation 39: 81-96.

Finally, a few academic institutions are developing a Light Electric Vehicle Education and Research Center (http://tesp.engr.utk.edu/lever.php).

Good luck,

Elliot 

http://www.atrf.info/papers/2013/2013_johnson_rose.pdf

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001457514002668

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214367X13000185

Hi

Vanessa, Georg, and Elliot.  Thanks.  My apologies for late replies my work keeps me out of the computer for days at a time.  I'm reading your replies and collecting thoughts on of course following the further reading links provided.

Hi Eric,

E-Mobility is one important step to an environmentally friendly and sustainable mobility. But my opinion is the progress comes too late and the steps worldwide are to small to meet the 2 degree Celsius limit of global warming. To give you an idea what I am talking about please take a look at the english abstract of my (sorry) german article:

Abstract

E-Mobility is clearly overestimated – Why the future still belongs to liquid fuels

E-Mobility technology is commonly seen as the saviour for mobility demands in the future.

However, during the next two or three decades the number of vehicles powered by an Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) will not only remain high, but will probably increase in absolute numbers.

Oil as the primary energy source for transportation purposes is limited and it is ex-pected that E-Mobility not will be able to substitute the demand for ICE vehicles.

The conclusion is that renewable liquid energies will be needed to ensure future mobility.

To receive the complete article please contact me: [email protected]

So if you are interested to discuss this topic with me, don't hesitate to contact me.

Regards,

Stefan