Electric vehicles’ impact on the future mobility - their strengths and pitfalls influence over the commercial transportation industry’s evolution

Abstract

With the electric vehicles (EVs) continuing to get constantly higher share in the mobility landscape, commercial fleets start preparing for this transformation. On one side, the pressure on the good and people transportation industry increased significantly in the last years due Covid-19 pandemic and will continue in the current external context of the war in Ukraine. Gas and fuel prices going higher and higher, drivers shortage, cuts in supply chain, these are the main challenges the industry suffers on daily basis. There is a clear need for change. Electrification seen as the future of mobility still represents a whole new world for most of the transportation companies. Due many unknown factors, fleet managers are still assessing the situation, weighing up the advantages and disadvantages of EVs and how suitable they are to ensure operations running efficiently. The big question for anybody that wants to add EVs to the commercial fleet is: how do we ensure getting all of the positive impact while avoiding the pitfalls? This article analysis the current situation, the different perspectives for commercial vehicles, the factors that are driving higher rates of adoption and the new stakeholders who will reshape the eco-system in this new macro-economic, social and political context

Keywords

• mobility
• electric
• vehicles
• transportation
• fleets
• infrastructure
• costs