Benefits of Motoring Eco-friendly Cars in Developed Countries: A Literature Review

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Contents
Chapter 2: Literature Review (LR)............................................................................................2
Introduction............................................................................................................................2
Benefits of Motoring Eco-friendly Cars in Developed Countries.........................................2
Summary................................................................................................................................7
References..................................................................................................................................8

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Chapter 2: Literature Review (LR)
Introduction
This chapter of the research is the literature review that will provide deeper understanding
about the research matter along with the research background.
In this context, literature review is being done to gather the non-numerical information
related to the research problem (Abrazo, 2018). Thus, this chapter is going to evaluate the gap
in the previous conducted researches with the help of reviewing their findings and views in a
way that those findings can bring to a valid conclusion.
This research is based on identifying benefits of eco-friendly cars within the developed
countries. In general, an eco-friendly car is cheaper as comparative to those conventional
fuelled vehicles due the reason that such cars are powered through electricity generated by
eco-friendly fuels and not gasoline (Kushwaha & Sharma, 2016). In addition, the eco-friendly
cars majorly reduce the monthly expenditure of the car owners (Kumar et al., 2011). On the
other hand, the more eco-friendly fuel will be used the lower will be the carbon footprints.
Besides, less noise as well as smoother rides are the value-added benefits of these cars
(Inderwildi & King, 2012). The above are the reasons that the research is being conducted
over this area, and this particular part is the base of the research as it is going to explore
scholarly papers, academic sources and other journals. The knowledge acquire from the
above scholarly review will include the current knowledge comprising applicable findings,
along with the theoretical as well as methodological contributions towards the research topic
(Bell et al., 2018).
Benefits of Motoring Eco-friendly Cars in Developed Countries
In this context, according to Hojnik and Ruzzier (2016), the key drivers of eco-innovation
mainly contribute in recognizing many drivers based upon diverse eco-innovation styles. In
addition, author suggested that, organizational eco-innovation, product eco-innovation,
process eco-innovation, as well as environmental funds in eco-friendly cars seem to be driven
through basic drivers, like cost savings, regulations as well as world-market pull factors. In
this way, this paper provided a synthesis of drivers of global firms’ eco-innovation as well as
directions for future study. While the above author derived the different drivers of eco-
innovation within the area of automobile industry, Inderwildi and King (2012) presented a

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strong inter-link amid energy, transport as well as the global environment. Within this journal
author has provided the need of ensuring energy security with the help of utilising an
anomalous age of easy energy as well as peak oil futures and crisis (Antweiler, 2014). As the
author suggested utilising eco-friendly cars and transport hence bio-energy innovation and
sustainable mobility have been discussed. In addition, this journal comprises the ways of
energy security within this emission-constrained world by offering an idea of using
alternative fuels for driving eco-friendly cars. Thus, Inderwildi and King (2012) have
presented an end-state solution of the conducted research as hydrogen for transportation.
Moreover, we can further see that world is continuously trying to meet CO2 emissions’
targets set for 2050 with the use of clean electric vehicles hence this research will offer
benefits of these vehicles in terms of mitigating risks associated with the huge CO2
emissions.
In addition to that Alam and McNabola (2014) have presented critical review contained
influences of Eco-driving policies from the viewpoint of both individual as well as global
network. The paper has also provided evidences of eco-motoring benefits which have been
identified. Moreover, in this paper many eco-driving technologies, their methods as well as
limitations have been discussed. In the context of benefits and limitations of eco-friendly
cars, Alam and McNabola (2014) highlighted that eco-friendly vehicles have gained major
attention within literature as well as among policy makers due to the fact that it reduces
CO2 emissions along with the fuel consumption considerably. In this context, study
conducted by Alam and McNabola (2014) supported the fact as many research surveys of
Eco-Driving policies have showed major reductions within fuel consumption as well as
CO2 emissions around from 5 per cent to 40 per cent across many initiatives and jurisdictions.
In addition, few likely negative effects of eco-friendly cars while developed countries are also
underlined. They included policy restrictions that might result in increased accident risks, as
well as CO2 emissions at a traffic network level. In this way, main findings of the review and
assessment done by Alam and McNabola (2014) revealed that Eco-friendly Driving Policy is
carrying the potential of reducing CO2 emission as well as fuel consumption within certain
circumstances.
In support to above findings, Kushwaha and Sharma (2016) stated that automobile sector can
rapidly increase their market shares worldwide within next upcoming years. The reason
behind is that various eco-business strategies may be adopted from automobile manufacturers