Can electric vehicles deliver sustainable mobility in low-income countries?

[Figure presented]Zia Wadud is a professor of mobility and energy futures at the University of Leeds. Zia's research sits at the juncture of transport, energy, and the environment in a multidisciplinary setting, with a focus on new mobility and energy interactions, transport decarbonization, personal carbon budgeting and trading, and transport and energy data analysis. He has published over 75 articles in leading transport and energy journals. Zia has a PhD from Imperial College London and has previously worked at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, the University of Cambridge, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [Figure presented]Shams Tanvir is an assistant professor at California State University Long Beach in the Department of Civil Engineering and Construction Engineering Management. He leads the Sustainable Mobility Lab (SumoLab), which focuses on developing and characterizing transportation technologies that minimize energy consumption and emissions and enhance mobility efficiency and equity. Shams earned a PhD from North Carolina State University in transportation systems engineering and was previously a professional researcher at the University of California, Riverside.