Investigating the Use of Electric Cars for Sustainable Energy in Smart Cities: A Study on London

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
Background..................................................................................................................................3
Literature Review.............................................................................................................................4
Methodology....................................................................................................................................6
Problem Identification.....................................................................................................................7
Conclusion and Recommendations..................................................................................................8
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

To investigate the use of electric cars to achieve Sustainable Energy in smart cities.
A study on London.
INTRODUCTION
Background
Sustainable energy is a practice followed to meet up the current energy requirements. The
concept of sustainable energy is defined as matching up the current energy need of the country
without interfering into the future possibility of the country to deliver its energy needs. Natural
resources are all limited which require and forced the government for taking steps forwards
towards the sustainable energy solution that can match up the current need along with the future
possible needs of the country. There are certain strategies and tactics that are used to cope up
with the sustainable energy solution which include wind, solar energy, hydro power and also the
renewable energy solutions. Energy sector is a wide sector in United Kingdom as the industry
contain the turnover of approximately 41.2 billion in the recent financial year (Amir and Khan,
2021). The sector is growing at a rate of approximately 3% which make this sector one of the
fastest growing in the United Kingdom. Traditional methods of energy generation contain the
extra cost in the face of pollution and such related aspects. The impact of pollution has been
directly on global warming and many others. Sustainable energy solutions are the one that
allowed the government to overcome the negative impacts traditional energy solutions could
create in society (Khalil And et.al., 2021). The sustainable energy solutions allowed the
government to control all the barriers and negative impacts traditional energy generation
methods created in the society. Using electric cars is among the core strategic choice adopted as
a part of the sustainable enrage solutions adopted by the government. Electric cars are
environment friendly as they do not consume fuel which completely avoid releasing pollution in
the air. Demand of electric car is also rising globally due to the awareness of people towards
environment protection and such related aspects.
Aim: To investigate the use of electric cars to achieve Sustainable Energy in smart cities.
A study on London.
Objectives:
To understand the concept of electric car and sustainable energy

To assess the impact of using electric car on sustainable environment.
To identify the challenges faced by smart cities while using electric cars to make
environment sustainable .
To suggest different ways that can be used by smart cities to minimize challenges while
using electric cars.
Problem statement
Electric car is one of the core tactics adopted by the government to promote the
sustainable energy in smart city projects. There are various issues which are faced as a part of
using the electric cars which involve effectiveness of these cars as compare to the other fuel
based cars, unavailability of charging station and many more issues.
Research Questions
 What does it mean by electric car and sustainable energy?
 What are the impacts of using electric cars on sustainable environment?
 What are the challenges smart cities face while using elect cars to make environment
sustainable?
 What are the different recommendations use by the smart cities to minimize the
challenges of using electric cars?
Literature Review
Literature review is a projection about opinions presented by the scholar over the topic of
study. Views and opinions of various researchers will present in this chapter in contrasting
manner. Mai keywords used in literature review is electric cars, sustainable, negative impacts,
challenges and renewable energy.
Theme 1: Concept of electric car and sustainable energy
Giansoldati, and et.al., (2018)has defined Electric vehicle is one of the most innovative
technology that has allowed people to make use of renewable energy. It has various benefit
as well as disadvantage that will harm the environment. Along with this, Secinaro and et.al.,
(2020) has stated that electric car use renewable energy such as natural gas or battery that
helps in running the car. Moreover, it is considers has one of the most innovative tool made by
human in order to save environment. -Gelmanova, and et.al., (2018) has defined sustainable
energy has renewable source that can be defined as form of energy that will utilize again and
again without putting a source in danger of getting depleted and vanished. Although the major