Immediate and future challenges of using electric vehicles for promoting energy efficiency in Africa’s clean energy transition

IF 8.6 1区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES Global Environmental Change Pub Date : 2023-12-12 DOI:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2023.102789

Augustine Sadiq Okoh , Magnus Chidi Onuoha

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Electric vehicle (EV) adoption in Africa is being driven by both structural and non-structural pressures. Hurdles to EV adoption as a tool for low carbon development are explained, drawing on interviews with energy specialists from Nigeria, Kenya, Ethiopia, South Africa, and Cameroon. Findings point to multiple-scale tensions between energy transition and access, between policy design and implementation, and between the spread of EVs and the power generation required to spur growth. Existing EV infrastructure is dependent on stranded assets from fossil fuel sources that are about to be abandoned for Africa’s power supply. Scaling up renewable energy systems will be more efficient if operational costs for fossil fuel infrastructure are switched to capital costs. This calls for a fresh business strategy designed to address Africa's desire to ensure energy efficiency that will spur the acceptance of EVs, while also deploying renewable energy to reach global climate goals. By using a combination of market and policy instruments, a new regulatory framework, accessible financing, and stronger price signals can help phase out aging fossil fuel infrastructure and spark an efficiency revolution.

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在非洲清洁能源转型中使用电动汽车提高能效的当前和未来挑战

非洲采用电动汽车（EV）的动力来自结构性和非结构性压力。通过对尼日利亚、肯尼亚、埃塞俄比亚、南非和喀麦隆的能源专家进行访谈，解释了将电动汽车作为低碳发展工具的障碍。研究结果表明，能源转型与能源获取之间、政策设计与实施之间、电动汽车的普及与刺激经济增长所需的发电之间存在着多方面的紧张关系。现有的电动汽车基础设施依赖于化石燃料的搁浅资产，而非洲的电力供应即将放弃化石燃料。如果将化石燃料基础设施的运营成本转为资本成本，那么扩大可再生能源系统的规模将更有效率。这就需要制定新的商业战略，以满足非洲确保能源效率的愿望，从而促进对电动汽车的接受，同时部署可再生能源，以实现全球气候目标。通过综合利用市场和政策工具，新的监管框架、便捷的融资和更强的价格信号，可以帮助逐步淘汰老化的化石燃料基础设施，并引发一场能效革命。

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Global Environmental Change 环境科学-环境科学

CiteScore

18.20

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2.20%

发文量

146

审稿时长

12 months

期刊介绍： Global Environmental Change is a prestigious international journal that publishes articles of high quality, both theoretically and empirically rigorous. The journal aims to contribute to the understanding of global environmental change from the perspectives of human and policy dimensions. Specifically, it considers global environmental change as the result of processes occurring at the local level, but with wide-ranging impacts on various spatial, temporal, and socio-political scales. In terms of content, the journal seeks articles with a strong social science component. This includes research that examines the societal drivers and consequences of environmental change, as well as social and policy processes that aim to address these challenges. While the journal covers a broad range of topics, including biodiversity and ecosystem services, climate, coasts, food systems, land use and land cover, oceans, urban areas, and water resources, it also welcomes contributions that investigate the drivers, consequences, and management of other areas affected by environmental change. Overall, Global Environmental Change encourages research that deepens our understanding of the complex interactions between human activities and the environment, with the goal of informing policy and decision-making.