A data story containing four charts and answering the question "Are Electric Vehicles Viable in 2021?"
Completed for my Part 4 Data Visualisation course at the University of Southampton
The full, interactive data story is available at: https://callumnewlands.github.io/ElectricCarsDataVis/ and static screenshots of some of the charts can be seen below
My report on the data story can be found in Report.pdf
The site should be run using a web server (e.g. VSCode Live Server) to facilitate the loading of data from datasources
npm is required to run the babel transpiler in the build.sh script if the site needs backwards compatibility with browsers
The data sources used have been replicated in this repository for convenience (/datasources), the original sources are attributed below
- European Union, “Proposal for a regulation of the european parliament and of the council amending regulation(EU) 2019/631 as regards strengthening the CO2 emission performance standards for new passenger cars and new light commercial vehicles in line with the union's increased climate ambition.” COM/2021/556 final. 2021 Available at: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex:52021PC0556
- Eurostat, “Gross and net production of electricity and derived heat by type of plant and operator.” 2021 Available at: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/NRG_IND_PEH__custom_1633739/default/table?lang=en
- S. Schlömer et al, “2014: Annex iii: Technology-specific cost and performance parameters,” in Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change. Contribution of Working Group III to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (S. Schl ̈omer, ed.), (Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA), p. 1335, Cambridge University Press, 2014. Available at: https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/ipcc_wg3_ar5_annex-iii.pdf#page=7
- Electric vehicle database Available at: https://ev-database.uk/
- Vehicle Certification Agency, “Car fuel and emissions information.” Available at: https://carfueldata.vehicle-certification-agency.gov.uk/downloads/default.aspx
- Dep. for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, “Weekly road fuel prices.” Available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/weekly-road-fuel-prices
- Dep. for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, “Annual domestic energy bills.” Available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/annual-domestic-energy-price-statistics
- Office for Low Emission Vehicles, “National charge point registry.” Available at: https://data.gov.uk/dataset/1ce239a6-d720-4305-ab52-17793fedfac3/national-charge-point-registry
- Simplemaps, “United Kingdom cities database.” Available at: https://simplemaps.com/data/gb-cities
- E. Emilsson and L. Dahllöf, “Lithium-ion vehicle battery production,” in Status 2019 on Energy Use, CO2 Emissions, Use of Metals, Products Environmental Footprint, and Recycling, IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute, 2019. Available at: https://www.ivl.se/download/18.14d7b12e16e3c5c36271070/1574923989017/C444.pdf
- Z. Hausfather, “Factcheck: How electric vehicles help to tackle climate change.” Available at: https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-how-electric-vehicles-help-to-tackle-climate-change
- M. Kane, “Compare electric cars: Ev range, specs, pricing & more.” Available at: https://insideevs.com/reviews/344001/compare-evs/
- F. Knobloch, S. V. Hanssen, A. Lam, H. Pollitt, P. Salas, U. Chewpreecha, M. A. J. Huijbregts, and J.-F. Mercure, “Net emission reductions from electric cars and heat pumps in 59 world regions over time,” Nature Sustainability, vol. 3, no. 6, pp. 437–447, 2020. Available at: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-020-0488-7.epdf
- Vauxhall, “Corsa.” Available at: https://www.vauxhall.co.uk/cars/corsa/overview.html
- S. Wilson, “Most popular diesel cars.” Available at: https://www.carshop.co.uk/latest-news/most-popular-diesel-cars/
- Vauxhall, “The golf price and specification guide.” Available at: https://www.volkswagen.co.uk/files/live/sites/vwuk/files/pdf/Brochures/golf-8-brochure-pricelist-p11d.pdf
- C. Cagatay, “How long should an electric car's battery last?.” Available at: https://www.myev.com/research/ev-101/how-long-should-an-electric-cars-battery-last
- Auto Express, “High-mileage cars: should you buy one?.” Available at: https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/car-news/99536/high-mileage-cars-should-you-buy-one
- M. Bostock, “Let's make a map.” Available at: https://bost.ocks.org/mike/map/uk.json