abstract
- Electrification of the transport sector in Cape Verde, followed by the construction of a charging infrastructure mainly supported by renewable energy, is one of the most important long-term objectives in Cape Verde. Despite having lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions when compared with other countries, the country adopted a strategy to decrease the consumption of fossil fuels and consequentially decrease GHG emissions in the transport sector with the implementation of policies to accelerate the deployment of electric mobility, aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals from the United Nations. Therefore, this paper analyses the electric mobility’s deployment in CapeVerde and the amount of GHG emissions that is possible to avoid with the usage of electric vehicles (EVs) considering two scenarios, first with the EV charging from the public grid energy and, second, the EVs charging from renewable energy sources. The conducted analysis exploits a practical case of a company located in Sal Island that has been replacing internal combustion engine (ICE) based vehicles with electric vehicles. Results suggest a reduction of 60.5% of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by using an electric fleet charged from a utility grid with a high penetration of fossil fuels compared with an ICE-based fleet.
- The authors are grateful to the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT, Portugal) for financial support through national funds FCT/MCTES (PIDDAC) to CeDRI (UIDB/05757/2020 and UIDP/05757/2020) and SusTEC (LA/P/0007/2021).