The role of the electrical vehicle in sustainable supply chains: a review

Abstract

Environmental concerns, such as global warming and scarcity of
natural resources, pressure companies to develop and adopt cleaner technologies
and production processes. Besides, the search for sustainable development (as
recommended by Agenda 2030 from the United Nations) has made companies
rethink their whole supply chain, including transport activities. Besides,
governments have been proposing public policies to obtain positive impacts in
the economic, social and environmental dimensions. In this context, many studies
have pointed out that electric mobility is a sustainable alternative to the transport
sector and, in many EU countries, the government has bet on subsidies to attract
manufacturers and customers to this market. Therefore, this paper aims to
identify the role of electric vehicles (EV) in sustainable supply chains,
considering the articles published in the Web of Science (WoS) database. We
realize that there is a low quantity of papers dedicated to investigating the EV in
this context. Many papers claim to perform sustainable analysis but do not
evaluate the triple bottom line's three dimensions. Nevertheless, we identified
that governments had developed policies to incentivize the introduction of
electric vehicles in the market.