Primer on Electric Vehicles in India : A Machine-generated Literature Overview

This book presents the result of an innovative challenge, to create a systematic literature overview driven by machine-generated content. Questions and related keywords were prepared for the machine to query, discover, collate and structure by Artificial Intelligence (AI) clustering. The AI-based approach seemed especially suitable to provide an innovative perspective as the topics are indeed both complex, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary, for example, climate, planetary and evolution sciences. Springer Nature has published much on these topics in its journals over the years, so the challenge was for the machine to identify the most relevant content and present it in a structured way that the reader would find useful. The automatically generated literature summaries in this book are intended as a springboard to further discoverability. They are particularly useful to readers with limited time, looking to learn more about the subject quickly and especially if they are new to the topics. Springer Nature seeks to support anyone who needs a fast and effective start in their content discovery journey, from the undergraduate student exploring interdisciplinary content to Master- or PhD-thesis developing research questions, to the practitioner seeking support materials, this book can serve as an inspiration, to name a few examples. 

It is important to us as a publisher to make the advances in technology easily accessible to our authors and find new ways of AI-based author services that allow human-machine interaction to generate readable, usable, collated, research content.

Prof. Saon Ray is an economist, specializing in international trade and industry issues. Her areas of interest include global value chains, technological upgrading of Indian industries, free trade agreements and trade creation effects, technology transfer, foreign direct investment, efficiency and productivity of firms, financial inclusion, energy, and climate change-related issues. She has published widely on these issues in books and journal articles. Her Ph.D. in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University examined the role of intellectual property rights in transferring technology to developing countries.

Dr. Deb Mukherji has been working in the automotive industry in India for the past 35 years. He has held CEO-level positions for more than 10 years for large Japanese and other MNCs in India. He was instrumental in bringing in several foreign joint venture partners and set up successful projects in India. He successfully set up and ran several large-scale businesses in India and abroad. An entrepreneur for the past 10 years, Dr Mukherji runs several businesses successfully. In 2018, he merged his companies with Anglian Omega, an international business group into automotive and infrastructure businesses in India.