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Title: | Effect of Battery Electric Vehicles on Greenhouse Gas Emissions in 29 European Union Countries | Authors: | Fuinhas, José Alberto Koengkan, Matheus Leitão, Nuno Carlos Nwani, Chinazaekpere Uzuner, Gizem Dehdar, Fatemeh Relva, Stefania Peyerl, Drielli |
Keywords: | battery electric vehicles; greenhouse gas emissions; energy consumption; method of moments quantile regression; European Union | Issue Date: | 2021 | Publisher: | MDPI | Project: | UIDB/05037/2020 UIDB/04007/2020 |
Serial title, monograph or event: | Sustainability (Switzerland) | Volume: | 13 | Issue: | 24 | Abstract: | This analysis explored the effect of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) on greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) in a panel of twenty-nine countries from the European Union (EU) from 2010 to 2020. The method of moments quantile regression (MM-QR) was used, and the ordinary least squares with fixed effects (OLSfe) was used to verify the robustness of the results. The MM-QR support that in all three quantiles, economic growth causes a positive impact on GHGs. In the 50th and 75th quantiles, energy consumption causes a positive effect on GHGs. BEVs in the 25th, 50th, and 75th quantiles have a negative impact on GHGs. The OLSfe reveals that economic growth has a negative effect on GHGs, which contradicts the results from MM-QR. Energy consumption positively impacts GHGs. BEVs negatively impacts GHGs. Although the EU has supported a more sustainable transport system, accelerating the adoption of BEVs still requires effective political planning to achieve net-zero emissions. Thus, BEVs are an important technology to reduce GHGs to achieve the EU targets of decarbonising the energy sector. This research topic can open policy discussion between industry, government, and researchers, towards ensuring that BEVs provide a climate change mitigation pathway in the EU region. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10316/105484 | ISSN: | 2071-1050 | DOI: | 10.3390/su132413611 | Rights: | openAccess |
Appears in Collections: | I&D CeBER - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais FEUC- Artigos em Revistas Internacionais |
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