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Road transportation is an important area of research within the framework of sustainable development, which has had the greatest destructive impact on the environment for many years. Among the negative effects of this mode of transportation on the natural environment presented in the literature on the subject, attention is drawn primarily to air pollution by harmful emissions from transport means, climate change caused by CO2 emissions and noise pollution. Despite the fact that new vehicles emit much less harmful substances, road transportation (including passenger vehicles) remains one of the few industrial sectors for which total emissions are increasing. This is due to increasing freight transportation, growing car fleets and increasing mileage. As a result, there is a constant need for new solutions which would be more environmentally friendly and linked to the implementation of the concept of sustainable development. One of them, currently strongly promoted, is the large-scale deployment of purely battery-powered electric cars, the so-called BEVs (Battery Electric Vehicle). The purpose of this article is to demonstrate whether such vehicles can actually contribute to reducing the negative impact of road transportation on the environment and consequently to the balancing of transportation systems.
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Sendek-Matysiak, E. (2020). The Role and Importance of Electric Cars in Shaping a Sustainable Road Transportation System. In: Siergiejczyk, M., Krzykowska, K. (eds) Research Methods and Solutions to Current Transport Problems. ISCT21 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1032. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27687-4_38
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