Abstract
E-mobility sustainability assessment is becoming more comprehensive with research integrating social aspects without focusing only on technical, economic, and/or environmental perspectives. The transportation sector is indeed one of the leading and most challenging greenhouse gas polluters, and e-mobility is seen as one of the potential solutions; however, a social perspective must be further investigated to improve the perception of and acceptance of electric vehicles. This could consequently lead to the European Green Deal’s holy grail: faster decarbonization of the transportation sector. Another way to achieve it is by promoting more comprehensive sustainable development goals. Therefore, this paper combines a systematic review of recent research with research emphasis focused on social aspects of electric vehicles and their interconnection with specific UN Sustainable Development Goals. By knowing the current research focus mainly related with “perception” of electric vehicles and assessing their social “impact” as well as an emerging area of “user experience” and their relations with UN Sustainable Development Goals enables better insight on the current and future directions of electric vehicle social sustainability research. The current priority is identified as “climate actions”. Increasingly important “sustainable cities and communities” shows potential for becoming one of the future research, policy, and community priorities.
Highlights
In 1987, the World Commission on Environment and Development presented the report “Our Common Future”
This paper provides a systematic and comprehensive review of available scientific papers to investigate the social perspective and social aspect of electric vehicles (EV)
The papers and research for this study were based on Web of Science (WoS), and only review and scientific articles were considered, while book chapters and conference papers were excluded from this research since they are not strictly related to research papers, which focus on the sustainable development goals (SDG) priorities are investigated in this paper
Summary
In 1987, the World Commission on Environment and Development presented the report “Our Common Future” They attempted to explain how important sustainability is to protect the environment for future generations and integrate social and economic progress. The importance of sustainability was expanded and was implemented in-laws, meaning countries started adopting sustainability-oriented laws [2], and at the same time, consumers became more and more aware of sustainability, mostly from the economic and environmental perspective [3]. This has impacted the transportation sector, presenting considerable environmental, social, and economic challenges [4]. It plays a significant role in air pollution resulting in climate change due to greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions [6]
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