Using Electric Vehicles in the UK: Key Findings from Research Articles

This report discusses the importance of using electric vehicles in the UK to reduce carbon emissions and improve air quality. It covers key findings from two research articles, including challenges faced by the UK in transitioning to electric vehicles and the increasing interest in buying electric cars. The report also compares the purpose, methodology, and results of the two articles.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY.............................................................................................................................3
Section A................................................................................................................................3
Section B................................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION..........................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES.........................................................................................................................10
Books and Journals:.............................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
The continuous change of climate provides many negative impacts on the
environment and at becoming a reason to use electric vehicles in society (Holmberg and
Erdemir, 2019). Use of electric vehicles in the environment is becoming the need of society
as they are suffering from high pollution due to the carbon emissions from transport sector.
For the purpose of survival in the environment, it becomes very important for people to
understand the use of electric vehicles in their life. In the environment, transportation is found
to be the largest energy consumption sector which is the main reason for carbon emissions in
the UK. For deep knowledge of using electric cars in the UK, this report will be cover
important research articles that are helpful to understand the concept of using electric
vehicles in the UK. This report will also cover key findings of articles and comparison
between academic papers including purpose, methodology, and results.
MAIN BODY
Section A
An introduction to your topic
The topic chosen for this report is using of electric vehicles in UK, which is found to
be very important in these days. The topic is not limited to UK because the need of using
electric vehicles is found to be important at global level. Every day it is found that there is a
rapid increase in climate change, which is becoming the main reason of global warming in
the environment (Danielis, Giansoldati and Rotaris, 2018). It is found that climate change
becomes a reason for making the environment adverse. For reducing the climate change,
along with UK many countries are focusing on identifying the ways which helps them to
reduce carbon emissions. Carbon is mostly emitted from the transportation sector and this is
the main reason that UK is focusing on increasing the use of electric cars. It is important to
note that people need to understand the use of electric vehicles which will be become their
future. It becomes an important topic which needs to be discussed in today's market, so that
every person can contribute their part by buying electric car. It is also found that adoption of
using electric vehicles in UK is actively supported by the government of British with the help
of providing many schemes and incentives (Mazur and et.al., 2018). The UK is found to be
the second largest European stock of electric vehicles after Norway until 2019. It is important

to discuss the use of electric vehicles in the market so that every company is able to provide
information related to the electric vehicles. In today's environment, electric vehicles found to
be very expensive in nature which becomes a drawback for country as people or not able to
afford the maintenance and cost of electric vehicles. For that purpose, it is necessary for each
and every automotive organisations to develop new and cheaper technology which able to
reduce the cost of electric vehicles. It is necessary for understanding the concept of using
electric vehicles in UK so that each and every people can effectively by the cars and other
vehicles. It is found that electric vehicles are expensive as compared to other vehicles but the
benefits of electric vehicles are definitely more than other vehicles. It is not only beneficial
for pollution but also improve the air quality (Secinaro and et.al., 2020). Every day it is found
that there is a continuous increasing pollution which needs to be stop by taking right actions
and using of electric vehicles found to be one of the important actions. This topic can be
better understood with the help of using important articles which are discussed.
A background to the topic
The environment in which people are living is needed to be pollution free so that
people are able to live their life in an effective way (Morganti and Browne, 2018). But due to
the man-made activities, it is identified that there is a continuous increase in pollution which
create rapid climate change. Today's environment is exploited and damaged because of
manmade pollution. It includes mainly transportation industry because it produces
approximately 73% of pollution in the environment. This is found to be the main reason for
UK to focus on using the electric vehicles in their environment which helps them to reduce
carbon emissions. It is estimated by UK to reduce carbon emissions up to 55% by 2030. This
is necessary for each and every organisation to focus on reducing the carbon emissions with
their small contributions. This can be done in many ways in which UK found one of the
important steps is that people can use electric vehicles. It will automatically reduce the
carbon emissions in the environment (Knobloch and et.al., 2020). It is important to note that
climate change is becoming one of the important issue at global level and because of that
there were many summits are conducted which helps them to find ways in order to reduce
carbon emissions. COP26 is found to be one of the important submit for UK as it focuses on
reducing climate change by identifying many ways. This is very crucial for each and every
organisation to focus on increasing the use of electric vehicles. UK has set their agenda
formation to reduce carbon emissions by 55% so that they can able to become carbon
neutrality by 2050. It is found to be interesting but not in easy task for UK.

Presentation of both articles
Article 1: Is the UK ready for an electric car revolution?
In the UK, transport is found to be the largest energy-consuming sector which
includes buses, cars, motorbikes, and Lorries that makes up 73% of all transfer-related
pollution. This data shows how much the UK must reduce carbon emissions by transitioning
to electric vehicles. It will help their air quality in urban areas and also be very helpful to
deliver savings in running maintenance and cost for consumers. In this article, the question is
arises i.e. the UK is ready for the electric car revolution or not. In this article, there are many
barriers found that restrict to enter the electric vehicles in the UK. It includes infrastructure
challenges, policy action, lifestyle changes, etc. These are the important barriers found in
entering a phase of electric vehicles in the UK market. In this article, there are many barriers
found that restrict to enter the electric vehicles in the UK. It includes infrastructure
challenges, policy action, lifestyle changes, etc. These are the important barriers found in
entering a phase of electric vehicles in the UK market. Professor Schwanen explained that
there is the biggest infrastructure challenge lies with electricity grade. It includes two
important issues which one of them being the peak use and another issue is there are many e
geographical locations that will have to be upgraded.
Article 2: 6.5m households in UK plan to buy an electric car by 2030
This is the article that shows that approximately 6.5 million households in the UK
plan to buy an electric vehicle by 2030. That means one in four households is buying an
electric vehicle in the next five years. The reason behind this is the sale of new petrol and
diesel vehicles will be banned in 2030 according to the research. This is due to their mission
of 2030 in which they are focusing on reducing carbon emission up to 55% so that they will
achieve carbon neutrality in 2050. According to the research of Ofgem, it is found that more
than 6.5m households are planning to buy an electric vehicle or plug-in hybrid. In simple
words, about 24% of people are planning to buy an electric vehicle. It is identifying and the
article that due to climate change it becomes necessary for the UK to renovate their
transportation sector by transitioning to electric vehicles. This will help them to achieve their
goals and objectives effectively. The UK is found to be one of the active players which
showing their interest in the Paris agreement that they will produce approximately 55%
carbon emissions in the environment by 2030. This agenda is not an easy task for them as it
becomes difficult due to the highest pollution in the market. According to the society of

motor manufacturers and traders, approximately 13.6% of new cars sold with pure battery-
electric or plug-in hybrids in the last 4 months. This data shows that the sale of electric
vehicles is increasing which is very helpful for the UK to achieve its objective. It is not only
useful for the UK mission but also very important for society.
Section B
A summary of key findings from both articles
From the discussion of above articles, it is very clear that use of electric vehicles will
be become beneficial for UK as they are not only able to achieve their mission of 2013 but
also able to improve their quality and environment for society (Logan, Nelson and Hastings,
2020). This is necessary to understand by each and every individual as well as organisations
to focus on their activities in order to achieve the goal of the UK. From the analysis of both
articles, it is found that UK needs to ready for the use of electric car as it will not be easy for
UK. In the article of University of Oxford, some important challenges founded buy UK in the
transition to electric vehicles such as infrastructure challenge, policy action and lifestyle
changes. This is very obvious that there are many benefits of electric vehicles as it produces
the carbon emissions in the environment which will lead to reduce health issues. It is found
that there are many health issues increasing only because of polluted air. So that's why use of
electric vehicles is becoming very important for the society. The challenges which hit the UK
mission are few electric models are available and also found to be more expensive than other
vehicles (Bonsu, 2020). In addition to this infrastructure is found to be an important challenge
for UK as it is crucial to upgrade their infrastructure for the use of electric vehicles. This can
be better understood with the help of examples. Currently, there is not as much electric
vehicles found in the market and because of that there are very less or no charging points of
vehicles. It is found to be the biggest challenge for the UK in which they need to upgrade
their infrastructure. People who can afford an electric car also need a charging infrastructure
so that they can charge their electric vehicles whenever they need. They also need to you
require a private parking so that they can charge at safe overnight parking nearby. Another
important challenge is policy action. It is very important that policy action should encourage
the public towards electric vehicles. It is important for the UK to require a mix of policies so
that they can encourage public to buy electric vehicles. Some important initiatives such as
government grants for battery electric vehicles and subsidized charging infrastructure should
be maintained and increased. In addition to this, it is important for UK to increase zero low
emission zones in cities and also focusing on an increase tax on internal combustion engines

so that people are able to focus on purchasing electric vehicles. These actions are found to be
very important foreign creasing the use of electric vehicles.
On the other hand, another article is found to be important because it shows that one
fourth people are planning for buying electric car by 2030. The reason behind is they know
that petrol and diesel vehicle will be banned by UK in order to achieve their 2030 goal.
According to the second article, it is found that more than 6.5 million households are
planning to buy in electric vehicles (Ait-Ouahmed, Josselin and Zhou, 2018). In recently, it is
found that there are more than half a million ultra low emission vehicles found on road of
Britain, the department for transport said. It is also found that more than a third of household
is not interesting in buying electric vehicle because of high prices and short battery life and
short range. These are the important reasons which need to be focused by UK so that they can
reduce the arguments of people. But it is found that this is not an easy task for UK as it
requires high research and implementations of effective ideas. After focusing on these
subjects, it is identified buy research from BloombergNEF that the cost of producing electric
cars of whence can be reduced by 2027 and it will be become cheaper as compared to petrol
cars by 2030. It is committed by the chief executive of Ofgem that they will be announced
millions of pounds of investments for the purpose of creating a flexible energy system which
is really helpful to support electrification of vehicles, low carbon forms of heat and renewable
generation. But it can be only after consumers switching to electric vehicles. It is very
obvious and found in the article that reduction of climate change can only be achieved if all
the consumers are effectively engage in this process (Bennett and Vijaygopal, 2018). Without
their engagement, it is not possible for the UK to reduce carbon emissions from the
environment. It is found that it can be e possible when you case focusing on fair, affordable
and inclusion as in the transition to a low carbon economy (Berkeley, Jarvis and Jones, 2018).
It is important to know that climate change is found to be important issue in today's
environment and it should be handled with the right actions as it provides a direct or indirect
impact on nature and human beings.
A comparison between academic papers including purpose, methodology and results
Articles Purpose Methodology Results
Is the UK ready for
an electric car
revolution?, 2019
The purpose of this
article is to provide a
general idea that UK
This article provides
general description
and that's why the
The result from this
article is raising a
question in front of

will be faced many
challenges
interference of
electric car
revolution. In this
article, it is found
that general
description as
provided by
University of Oxford
towards the current
important issue in the
UK. UK is focusing
on using electric
vehicles but for that
purpose we need to
identify all the
upcoming problems
and make solution to
cope up with them.
author is used
descriptive writing
which provides facts
and information
about an article. The
description
methodology is used
and thus article
which provides facts
and information in
front of the people
about electric car
revolution in UK. It
is important for each
and every individual
to understand this is
style easily so that
they can find another
research in more
effective manner.
the UK that they are
ready for an electric
car revolution or not.
That means the result
of this paper is found
to be in a question
from which instigates
another answer. That
means it will require
for the research and
investigation that you
will be able to
implement electric
car revolution or not
in future.
6.5m households in
UK plan to buy an
electric car by 2030,
2021
In this article, the
author is mainly
focusing on the
planning of
household in the UK
who are focusing on
buying an electric car
by 2030. It is
important for them to
buy electric vehicles
and then only UK is
able to achieve their
2030 mission.
This article is used
analytical style or
methodology for
writing this paper.
The reason behind
this is they are able
to provide real facts
and figures in front
of the people which
is helpful for them to
achieve their goals
and objectives. In
this article, people
The result of this
paper is found the
nature of answer as it
provides a clear point
of view that
households are
planning to buy an
electric car in the UK
(O'Neill and et.al.,
2019). Because of
that it does not
require any further
investigation. It

are focusing on
buying electric
vehicles as UK is
planning to solve
their all the
problems.
provides all the
information which
will be satisfy the
questions of people.
CONCLUSION
It can be concluded from the above discussion that using of electric cars is found to be
very important in today's environment as everyday there is a continuous rapid increase in
climate change. So it is important for each and every person to focus on using electric
vehicles which is really helpful to reduce the carbon emissions. It is also found that carbon
emissions can be reduced with many other actions but use of electric car is becoming an
important action in UK. The UK is found to be one of the country which is actively
participating in reducing the carbon emissions as they have a mission of reducing 55% carbon
by 2030. For that purpose, there continuously focuses on finding and implementing new ideas
and actions which is really helpful for them to achieve their goals and objectives. This report
covered the discussion of two important articles in which one article is focusing on
identifying the challenges in the use of electric vehicles and another article is focusing on
household who are planning to buy electric vehicles by 2030. These articles are very helpful
in order to understand the problems and benefits of use of electric vehicles in UK.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals:
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Bennett, R. and Vijaygopal, R., 2018. Consumer attitudes towards electric vehicles: Effects
of product user stereotypes and self-image congruence. European Journal of
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Berkeley, N., Jarvis, D. and Jones, A., 2018. Analysing the take up of battery electric
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Is the UK ready for an electric car revolution?, 2019. [Online] Available through:
<https://www.research.ox.ac.uk/article/2019-11-03-electric-car-revolution>
6.5m households in UK plan to buy an electric car by 2030, 2021. [Online] Available
through: <https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/may/21/65m-households-uk-electric-
car>