Title :
Electric vehicles need more study, less emotion
Abstract :
Our latest such shock came from last month\´s cover story, Unclean at Any Speed, as evidenced in the astounding volume of comments it elicited. As author Ozzie Zehner notes, "the seemingly simple question \´Are electric cars indeed green?\´ quickly gets complicated".
Keywords :
cost reduction; electric vehicles; environmental engineering; industrial economics; materials handling; electric vehicles; environmental impacts; gasoline cars; greenhouse gases; materials and manufacturing; well to wheel carbon footprint; Electric vehicles; Performance evaluation;
Journal_Title :
Spectrum, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MSPEC.2013.6565543
