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How cities can drive the electric vehicle revolution

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Cities are central to increasing the uptake of electric vehicles. A range of situational and contextual factors will influence this process, and cities need to use a variety of mechanisms — including policies and incentives — to drive the necessary change.

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Fig. 1: Past and future increases of electric vehicle stock.

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  1. School of Engineering, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

    Oliver Heidrich, Dilum Dissanayake & Simon Lambert

  2. Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

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  3. Faraday Institution (ReLIB project), Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, UK

    Simon Lambert

  4. International Energy Agency, Paris, France

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  5. Urban Foresight Ltd, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

    Gordon Hector

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Heidrich, O., Dissanayake, D., Lambert, S. et al. How cities can drive the electric vehicle revolution. Nat Electron 5, 11–13 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-021-00709-3

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