Editorial: The process of electrification of the global automotive industry

Résumé:

The 2023 Gerpisa international colloquium focused on the process of electrification of the global automotive industry. From 4% in 2020, the share of plug-in vehicles has grown to 16% in 2023, and up to 37% in China and 22% in Europe. This growth has been essentially driven by environmental regulations and industrial policies, rather than by consumers’ preferences. But how sustainable is this accelerated transition towards electric vehicles?
The selection of papers in this special number reflects both the wide scope and the complexity of this paradigmatic transition towards electro-mobility, as well as the wealth of the scientific production within the Gerpisa international network of research. If the five contributions presented here do not, of course, cover all the questions and issues raised by this topic, they do however address several of them and they do so, even more remarkably, across all the value chain.