Research Skills and Using Information

Research Skills and
Using Information

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK-A...........................................................................................................................................3
INTRODUCTION OF ARTICLES............................................................................................3
BACKGROUND OF ELECTRIC CARS...................................................................................4
IS UK READY FOR AN ELECTRIC-CAR-REVOLUTION ..................................................4
CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITY FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE ADOPTION................5
TASK-B ..........................................................................................................................................7
SUMMARY................................................................................................................................7
COMPARISON BETWEEN ACADEMIC PAPERS INCLUDING PURPOSE,
METHODOLOGY AND RESULTS..........................................................................................8
CAARP Test................................................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Research skills are known as the capability to search for, find, identify, extract, manage
data, execute in using or a present information that should be relevant to the topic chosen. An
academic research is typical type of research that focuses on detailed and systematic
investigation into some part/case of study. In this respective report the chose topic is “The use of
electric cars in the UK”. With the reference of this topic the specified information has been
explained as further. The electric cars were being used in 2021 against a market. Despite the fact,
more of a battery electric vehicles(BEV) were purchased than comparing to the previous five
years(2016-2020) (Kumar,Guha and Chakraborty, 2022). In this report there will be given a
detailed analysis of uses of electric cars in context to UK, challenges and opportunity for it's
adoption, UK willingness for electric car revolution, the summary of both presentations and at
the end is CAARP test done for checking the authenticity factor.
TASK-A
INTRODUCTION OF ARTICLES
There has been a tremendous increase in the sale of electric cars in UK, in the case more
than 40% models are present as plug-ins. The companies such as Tesla, Ford, Nissan, Vauxhall
have boomed their model line ups to combine worth buying plug-in models. As far the premium
brand Volkswagen has been accelerating a step above and invented electric-only ID. When a
person purchases an electric car in the UK then he/she will be eventually qualify for a discount
of £1,500 if the car comes above £32,000. The plug-in car grant(PICG) has been formed by
government and it automatically gets the amount deducted from the advertised car price. There
are more than 16,395 public electric vehicle charging devices available in UK. Among them
3,500 are rapid EV chargers. In Scotland, UK there are highest number of EV charging devices
per 100,000 of the figure of population of 47 in England are 36, in Wales are 29, in Northern
Ireland are 17. Till the month end of June 2021, approximately 39.2 million licensed vehicles
were established in the UK but about 300,000 of them were counted in EVs. In 2021 maximum
number of electric cars were sold with more of a 1990,727 new EVs were registered.

BACKGROUND OF ELECTRIC CARS
Going backwards in 1996, the first electric vehicle introduced by Scooter's India Pvt. Ltd.
was a three-wheeler and it is used to called VIKRAM SAFA. Before that an electric motor or so
called small electric car was invented by Anyos Jedlik in 1828. In 19th century when electric
vehicles had a start they didn't earned that much because of their high cost, short distance
covered and low speed (Felser, 2022). They came into existence just for transportation and
public convenience, in a special case is railways. As the gas-powered vehicles used to pollute
more and more of the environment, another advantage of using them was that there was no gear
system. Due to this concern the interest in electric vehicles was gradually getting greater. A
disadvantage was that it could be only used within the city because of it's short range coverage.
But with plus points it doesn't have a manual start and runs with vibration/no sound.
IS UK READY FOR AN ELECTRIC-CAR-REVOLUTION
There are several uses found for electric cars in United Kingdom which helps the country
in many ways are as follows-
 Energy Security – Using energy source like transportation by electricity brings a
resiliency benefits. The most secured energy source is when various types of fuels are
used in electric cars for this generation. After-all this provides security to the nation.
HEVs typically consume so less fuel than conventional cars. (Is UK ready for an electric
car evolution,2019 [online])
 Fuel Economy – The good achieving fuel economy and also cost of fuel is so low of
HEVs in comparative to the conventional cars. All the types of electric cars – EVs,
PHEVs and HEVs does decreases cost of their fuel because of the electronic parts are
highly efficient. The fuel economy of EVs and PHEVs are calculate in a different way in
comparison to conventional vehicles that is Miles Per Gallon of Gasoline
Equivalent(MPGe) and killowatt-hours(kWh) per 100 miles. It also depends on how the
driver maintains by driving their PHEVs if it is light duty it consumes over 25-40 kWh
and can be driven till 100 miles or even can be used up to 130 MGPe. Whether a PHEVs
and EVs of medium to heavy duty are much reliable on the quantity of load it's dealing
ant the duty-cycle (Ma,Xu, and Fan 2022).
 Infrastructure Challenges – PHEVs and EVs are flexible to charge. They are easily
parked anywhere and can be charged within one night at any places like home, multi-unit