Where Electrification Improves and Where It Struggles: A Renewables-and-Materials View of Small Cars and Domestic Heating

Yuetian Huang

doi:10.54254/2755-2721/2025.GL28781

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Where Electrification Improves and Where It Struggles: A Renewables-and-Materials View of Small Cars and Domestic Heating

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Where Electrification Improves and Where It Struggles: A Renewables-and-Materials View of Small Cars and Domestic Heating

Yuetian Huang ^1*

¹ Chongqing Depu Foreign Language School

^*Corresponding author: yue243742@gmail.com

Published on 28 October 2025

ACE Vol.201

ISSN (Print): 2755-273X

ISSN (Online): 2755-2721

ISBN (Print): 978-1-80590-493-9

ISBN (Online): 978-1-80590-494-6

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Abstract

As more and more technology advancement of transportation and electrification of heating system, residents nowadays usually had the less demand for using the fossil fuel which causes the carbon emission. For instance, most people’s vehicles had converted from ICE (internal combustion engine) vehicles to the BEVs (Battery electric vehicles). Another example, domestic heating pumps, use electricity instead of using fossil fuel (natural gas, propane, heating oil, charcoal etc.) nowadays to transfer heat from a cool space to a warm space and reverse this process if in summer. Electrification refers to the source of generating the electricity and their usage are renewable such as photovoltaic, wind electricity, hydrogen-powered electricity etc. These source of electricity can supply the electric vehicles and the electric heat pumps sufficiently. However, the cost of source of generating the electricity and technology impede the electrification. For materials perspective, like battery, electromotor, conductors & insulators, heat exchange, and refrigeration materials. These materials can determine the efficiency, energy density and the life span. Nevertheless, these materials are also limited and difficult to manufacture. Thus, this paper will provide the clear and executable ideas for the strategies and material selection of small cars and heat pump renovations in electrification and explain the limitation in mechanism perspective.

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Electrification, Energy, Renewable Materials, Small Cars, Domestic Heating

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Huang,Y. (2025). Where Electrification Improves and Where It Struggles: A Renewables-and-Materials View of Small Cars and Domestic Heating. Applied and Computational Engineering,201,69-75.

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