Electric Car Growth in Malta: A Literature Review Report

This report presents a comprehensive literature review on the burgeoning electric car market in Malta. It begins with an introduction to literature reviews, establishing the context for the subsequent analysis. The main body of the report delves into the rapid growth of electric cars in Malta, highlighting increasing sales figures and market dynamics. It then explores the significant impact of electric vehicles on the automobile industry, including shifts in customer preferences, business models, and regulatory pressures. The report further examines the pivotal role electric cars are expected to play in the future, particularly in terms of fuel efficiency and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Finally, it addresses the challenges faced by electric car manufacturers, such as high costs, customer perceptions, infrastructure limitations, and technological advancements. The conclusion summarizes the key findings, emphasizing the importance of electric cars in Malta's automotive landscape and their potential to shape the future of transportation. This report is a valuable resource for students, offering insights into the electric vehicle market and its implications. This assignment is available on Desklib, a platform providing study tools for students.

RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES

TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHPATER 1- LITERATURE REVIEW INTRODUCTION..........................................................3
CHAPTER 2- LITERATURE REVIEW MAIN BODY.................................................................3
Growth of the modern electric cars in Malta...............................................................................3
Impact of modern electric cars on the automobile industry.........................................................4
Role played by modern electric cars in the future.......................................................................5
Challenges faced by electric car manufactures............................................................................6
CHAPTER 3- LITERATURE REVIEW CONCLUSION..............................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

CHPATER 1- LITERATURE REVIEW INTRODUCTION
Generally literature review is one of part of article review, it is a scholarly paper,
literature review includes the knowledge including methodological and theoretical as well as
substantive finding to a specific topic. Literature review is also known as narrative review. it
does not report original experimental works and this is a secondary, it is a basis for research in
all academic field. it is the in depth and analytical evaluation of the previous research. Literature
reviews is similar as the summary of particular research of area. Literature review is common in
a research prospectus. It is the global summary of the earlier research, it provides landscape to
the reader of review or providing them complete information or understanding in the field of
development, literature review is not only description data of the available material, it is defined
by a leading or guiding concept. Systematic, evaluative, instrumental, theoretical, historical and
methodological are some main types of literature reviews(Ehsani and et.al., 2018). There are the
different ways to organize literature review some are mentioned below:
 Follow the proper chronological method under the literature review,
 Methodological approaches concentrate on the technique used by the
researcher(Gnatov, Argun and Rudenko., 2017).
Literature review must include the following details:
 Overview of the issue, subject with the ambition of literature review.
 Complete and clear explanation related to the work similarity and how it is obtained from
the others.
 Conclusion of the whole review in a very simple and a clear language which helps the
reader to understand easily.
CHAPTER 2- LITERATURE REVIEW MAIN BODY
Growth of the modern electric cars in Malta
As per the vies of Kebriaei, Niasar and Asaei, (2015) use of the modern electric car is
rapidly increasing in the whole UK. In the Malta the modern electric car is expanding at a rapid
pace. Under 2018 the modern electric car exceeded 5.1 million, up 2 million from the previous
year and doubling the numbers of the new modern electric car sales. The resident people of the
Malta remains the worlds the largest modern electric car market followed by the Europe and the
united state. This is the dynamic development of the modern electric cars in the Malta. The
growth of modern electric cars in the Malta plays a Important role in the automobile industries.

Technology or policies have a major influence on the development of the automotive electric
industries. Technology of the modern electric car's development are delivering substantial cost
reduction, key enablers are developments in battery chemistry and expansion of production
capacity in the manufacturing the modern electric cars. it is hard to tell where the future will
take moderns electric it is clear that modern electric car hold a lot of potential for creating most
sustainable future for the modern electric cars in the Malta and the ratio of the sales of modern
electric cars in the Malta is increasing day by day.
As illustrated by Wentland, (2016) there has been a significant growth in electric cars in
Malta and this number has increased over threefold from the year 2013 and in 2017 there are
more than 1,061 electric cars which run on Maltese roads. But within the country even this
significant growth has not made a major dent in the markets of traditional automobiles. The only
company which has seen exponential growth in the Europe is Tesla which has jumped over 30%
increase which is up to 16,132 units in the year 2013. With the growth of electric cars in the
country this has provided a huge opportunity various other automobile companies to enter in the
market of Malta. Based on the global electric vehicle outlook it has been analysed that
developments which are made in electric cars across the globe, it will help and support the
members of electric vehicle initiatives within the country. As per the projection with 2030
various key areas are being examined such as charging and vehicle infrastructure, energy use,
ownership, cost, co2 emissions and battery materials are taken into consideration. Also, with the
advancement in technologies companies are able to minimise the challenges that were faced by
electric car manufactures in the past and they were able to improve the performance of the cars
over the years. This has changed the face of transportation. This has led to the growth of electric
cars and another major reason for growth is that, it can help the country to solve the issues
climate change and shifting towards the sustainable source of energy. Also, government of Malta
are supporting the drive of electric cars in the nation are even formulating the policies which can
result in future growth of modern electric cars in the country.
Impact of modern electric cars on the automobile industry
As per the views of Krause and et.al., (2016) the period of 2015 to 2050 is considered as
exciting period for the auto industry across the world. The main reason behind this is that electric
car segment have been successful in attracting several entrants as well as customers across the
world. Various automobile manufactures are making significant investment in order to capitalise

towards the growth of electric cars in the world. With the growth of electric car segment will
have a significant impact on the auto industry and will disrupt the automobile industry in the
future. Global electric industry especially the segment of electric cars sales are on surge and are
further expected to grow form 2015 which is 1.2 million to 2025 which will be 25 million. This
will sure impact the industry and force various car manufacture of the world to enter in to the
segment of electric cars and this will also result in fall of sale of traditional cars which will
impact their profitability of the automotive sector. There has also been regulatory pressure on the
emission standards which have forced the government of various countries to subsidise the
electric vehicle which also impact the industry. Another major impact of modern electric on the
industry is that it will change the needs of customers as customer will prefer the electric vehicles
and this will result in shifting of demand towards the electric cars. Also, it will result in the
change in business model of dealers. As in the future vehicle maintenance of electric cars are
expected to decrease than of conventional cars which will also have a significant impact on the
industry. Also, various automotive companies in the future will have to meet the goals of
changing climate in the future. So, all of these factors will have major impact on the industry as
it will result in decline is sale of conventional cars, it will also result in the change of automotive
structure of the industry as many companies will enter in new segment. This will also give rise to
competition to existing companies like Tesla.
Role played by modern electric cars in the future
As elucidated by Bimbraw, (2015)With the development in technology, electric car
companies are working hand in hand and are implementing various technologies in order to
deliver the most advanced, most comfortable and safest cars to the customers. There are various
which modern electric can play in the future one of the major role is that can change the structure
of entire automotive industry as demand for the electric cars will rise in the future and in the
future modern electric cars will out-number the conventional cars. Another important role which
will be played by electric cars is that it will result in in more fuel efficient rides which will be
better than conventional cars. This will act as major contributory factor towards the minimising
the green house effect in the future.
As illustrated by Manzetti and Mariasiu, (2015) with the growth of electric vehicles
another major role which will be played by modern electric vehicles rising demand for energy
will be met easily as 70 percent of transportation oil are used by vehicles. Use of modern electric

cars will play an important role fulfilling the emerging demand for passenger vehicles. It can also
create additional development opportunities in the economy as electric cars will increase the
quality of life of people across the world, will reduce energy consumption and will also crease
the country's reliability on foreign oil. So, these are the major roles which will be played by
modern electric cars in the future.
Challenges faced by electric car manufactures
As illustrated by Kahlen and Ketter, (2015) there are various challenges which are faced
by electric manufactures in manufacturing of electric cars. One of the major challenge for the
companies is cost, the type of battery technologies which are used in electric cars are very
expensive, as the batteries need to hold large amount of charge in order to make car movable for
large distance. There are various other factors which make them costly like the attractive design,
materials used, technology used, etc which make these cars much costlier than conventional
cars. Another challenges which are faced by electric car manufacturing companies is perception
of customer as most of customers believe that electric are not powerful, such cars are very
expensive, has low range etc. so, changing the perception and convincing customer is a major
challenge for the companies. People are always worried about their rides as they believe that
batteries could run out at any time. Beside a country may not have charging stations at various
locations which is a thing that customers are worried about. With the growth of electric cars it
would result in change in infrastructure of the country which is a challenging task especially for
the developing countries.
As per the view of Ajanovic, (2015) another major challenging factor for companies is
that advancement in technology which can prove time-consuming and also can prove costly for
the company. This will result in rise of cost for the company for which customer are not willing
to pay. As, cost of modern electric cars are high so, this performance of these cars also should be
to the satisfactory level for the customer. Any failure in technology can result in loss for the
company and customer will change their preferences. Another challenges which are faced by
electric car manufacturing companies is that to keep their technology advanced and keep on
making developments in the technology adopted. Also, with the rise of companies entering in
electric segment will result in competition within the segment which will become challenging for
existing companies for example Tesla which in the future would have to face high level of
competition in the market. So, these are the challenges which are faced by various car

manufacturing companies within the market which have set various benchmarks for them in
order to satisfy customer and environment.
CHAPTER 3- LITERATURE REVIEW CONCLUSION
It can be concluded from the report that modern electric cars are playing and will play an
important role in the future as there has been rise in the modern electric cars across the world.
This have provided various opportunities for the companies which are in this business which can
have a strong impact on their growth and profitability. Also, electric plays an important role
improving the climatic conditions of word and will also play an important role in meeting the
energy demand of passenger cars in the world. Present report also concludes that modern electric
cars can have a strong impact on the automotive industry as growth in electric car segment will
result directly or indirectly impact the sale of conventional cars in the industry. Due to
advancement in technology, modern electric can play a vital role in the future like improvement
in the feature and capability of the cars, minimising the co2 emission, energy, sustainability, etc.
But there are various challenges which are faced by companies in order to make their cars
suitable for the customer and it is vital for the companies to minimise these challenges for the
future growth.

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