Abstract:

The webinar on “Sustainability Assessment of Electric Vehicles: Opportunities and Challenges” was organized by TERI and GIZ India on September 2, 2022. The webinar focused on the need for an integrated sustainability assessment of EVs incorporating environmental and socio-economic factors to help generate relevant data and fill existing knowledge gaps through robust results and full proof policies. 

One of the most effective tools of sustainability assessment is Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). LCA is a systematic analysis of potential environmental impacts of products or services during their entire life cycle including the end of life phase. There has been to-date several LCA studies done on EVs globally but none in the case of India. LCA can also be coupled with Hotspot Analysis Tool (HAT) for targeted interventions to improve EV performance particularly in stages where it is lagging.

Other sustainability assessment tools are Social Impact Assessment (SIA) that might help to forecast long term impacts of EV penetration in Indian villages and other harsh terrains like mountainous and deserts along with their spill over implications on economy and social factors like human health and education. The need is for an integrated sustainability assessment for EVs incorporating environmental and socio-economic factors to help generate relevant data and fill existing knowledge gaps through robust results and full proof policies.

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