Monday 29 April 2013

Tyndall seminar: To EV or not to EV? Choices and trade-offs on the path to a decarbonised transport sector.

Tyndall Manchester would like to invite you to attend the next talk in our seminar series To EV or not to EV? Choices and trade-offs on the path to a decarbonised transport sector’ by Dr. Jillian Anable, Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Transport Research at the University of Aberdeen.
 

Many different carbon plans, climate change reviews, and transport and energy White Papers over the past decade or so have proposed more or less similar packages of policies to ensure the transport sector 'pulls its weight' in climate change policy in the UK. 

These have emphasised developments in vehicle technology and fuels and associated fiscal incentivisation, with relatively little attention given to the management and reduction of travel demand. In recent years, however, the attention given to the 'technical fix' has intensified as most of the policy effort and expectation has been increasingly placed on projections of plug-in electric vehicle uptake.

This talk will suggest that the recent focus on electric vehicle technology could result in more carbon emissions over the long run. It will review current proposals and projections for the uptake of these vehicles in the UK and elsewhere. 

By drawing on recent work for the Energy Technologies Institute and the Committee on Climate Change, including research on the psychology of vehicle choice, it will offer an understanding of the real role that electric vehicles are likely to play in future patterns of mobility and car ownership. By reviewing the recent policy direction and evidence on potential EV uptake, it will pose and attempt to answer the question: have EVs damaged transport and climate change policy?

Open meeting but please RSVP, to Amrita via  tyndall@manchester.ac.uk 

When: 4pm, Wednesday 22nd May
Where: Room C1, George Begg Building, Sackville Street, Manchester, M13 9PL

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