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Student Name: Bren Veziroglu

Reference: Tie, S. F., & Tan, C. W. (2013). A review of energy sources and energy management
system in electric vehicles. Renewable and sustainable energy reviews, 20, 82-102.

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Global warming is a nearly universally recognized threat to our
civilization, whose importance is hard to overstate. Many potential
solutions have been proposed to combat global warming, and one
of our main lines of defense is decreasing the global greenhouse
gas emissions. As the transportation sector accounts for
approximately 33.7% of greenhouse gas emissions, switching from
fossil fuel based internal combustion engines (ICE) to electric
vehicles (EV) represents an extremely promising solution. Interest
in EV seems to be on the rise, as US sales of EV's have increased
from 274,555 in 2010 to 393,938 in 2013. This review suggests
that EV’s are a viable alternative to the high Greenhouse gas
emission and low drive train efficiency of conventional ICE
vehicles, and that hybrid electric vehicles are a valid interim step to
fully electric vehicles.