Ecological and economic aspects of motor transport electrification

The modern global economy demonstrates mutually multidirectional trends. On the one hand, there is a continuous increase in energy demand, on the other, the most developed countries of the world are showing growing concern about the environmental consequences of using traditional energy resources. In the rapidly developing countries of the Asian region, the indicators of electricity production are intensively increasing, while in Europe they show a downward trend. The growth of the population and its mobility necessitates an increase in the number of cars. Cars are considered as sources of a large amount of pollution for the environment, primarily for the atmosphere. The issue of replacing cars with more environmentally friendly electric vehicles is relevant. Despite the significant growth in the number of electric vehicles in the world, it remains extremely small compared to the number of traditional cars. The transition to the use of electric vehicles raises a number of social, economic and environmental issues: does humanity, and our country in particular, have the resources to provide electric vehicles with energy; will the replacement of cars with electric vehicles benefit the environment, because globally there will be a transfer of energy generation from internal combustion engines to power plants, which often use much more “dirty” fuels than car engines; what will be the consequences for the economies of countries focused on the use of traditional fuel and energy resources when abandoning infrastructure that supports the operation of traditional cars. A large number of people and organizations are involved in the system of extraction of raw materials, production of fuels of petroleum origin and their distribution, and it is necessary to study their prospects while abandoning the oil-oriented economy. For the production of electricity from coal in our country, trends have been outlined at the state level to maintain production in order to maintain social stability. An important social factor for the expansion of the use of electric vehicles is also their high cost.