RMIT University
- Start Date: 19 Dec, 2022
- 2 weeks
- Study Content: Videos
Explore the design and delivery of electric vehicle infrastructure to reduce carbon emissions in cities.
Course Fee: Free
Certificate Cost: See Fees and Eligibility
Course Description
This course is made available through the eLearnAfrica and FutureLearn partnership.
Understand how cities implement an EV infrastructure
Cities across Europe are delivering electric vehicle infrastructure to reduce carbon emissions and meet their climate change targets. To do this, good policy intervention and effective design and delivery is essential.
On this two-week course, you’ll gain an understanding of the electric vehicle market and its uptake across Europe in personal, commercial, and heavy vehicles.
You’ll look at the cultural shift of expanding electric vehicle adoption and how to overcome the challenges of this implementation.
Explore urban transformation and electric mobility
Electric mobility requires urban transformation, which can present many issues including retrofitting existing infrastructure and buildings.
You’ll understand how to address these challenges to aid the expansion of electric mobility. You’ll learn from current trends in the delivery of EV infrastructure in Europe and discover how this impacts the low-carbon transition to tackle climate change.
Delve into the principles and practice of carbon neutrality
As you explore the implementation of EV systems, you’ll delve into case studies from around the world to gain practical knowledge of electric mobility.
With this understanding, you’ll be able to unpack the difference between principles and practice in carbon neutrality to discover how a city can truly become net-zero.
Understand sustainable urban development with the experts at RMIT University
Throughout the course, you’ll be guided by the specialists at RMIT University to ensure you gain a solid understanding of how electric mobility can help achieve climate change targets in Europe.
This course is designed for anyone interested in sustainable urban development.
You may already be working in urban planning or development or you may be wishing to pursue a career in these fields.
Certificate cost may vary. You will be redirected to the host page for cost and payment options.
RMIT University
RMIT is a global university of technology, design and enterprise specialising in art and design; architecture and the built environment; engineering; computer science; and business and management studies.
One of Australia’s original tertiary institutions, RMIT University has over 80,000 students (including 12,000 at postgraduate level) who are undertaking professional and vocational education, applied research, and industry and community engagement.
RMIT has a unique approach to meeting the challenge of being ready for life and work: it offers an education that is deeply grounded in ideas and cross-disciplinary understanding, applied through innovative, enterprising practice to solving problems and meeting the needs of its community.
RMIT’s goal is to offer life-changing experiences, and to shape the world with the talent, knowledge and learning capability that it shares.
This institution is available on eLearnAfrica through partnership with FutureLearn.
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