Green Drivers or Free Riders? An Analysis of Tax Rebates for Hybrid Vehicles

By Ambarish Chandra, Sumeet Gulati, M. Kandlikar. 2010

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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Getting Green with Solar Subsidies: Evidence from the California Solar Initiative (2015, background): “These estimates are comparable to other energy efficiency programs (Gillingham, Newell, and Palmer 2006; Chandra et al. 2010; Allcott 2011).”
Providing the Spark: Impact of financial incentives on battery electric vehicle adoption (2019, background): “Outside of the United States, Chandra et al. (2010) find support at the province level that tax rebate incentives influenced hybrid vehicle adoptions in Canada.”
The impact of car specifications, prices and incentives for battery electric vehicles in Norway: Choices of heterogeneous consumers ☆ (2016, background): “…models (Sullivan et al., 2009; Eppstein et al., 2011; Mueller and de Haan, 2009), consumer choice model (Santini and Vyas, 2005; Axsen et al., 2009; Bolduc et al., 2008), and diffusion rate and time series models (Cao and Mokhtarian, 2004; Al-Alawi and Bradley, 2013; Chandra et al., 2010).”
Electric vehicle adoption in Sweden and the impact of local policy instruments (2018, background): “Related literature has in several countries found both nationally implemented financial incentives (e.g. Beresteanu & Li, 2011; Chandra et al., 2010; Gallagher & Muehlegger, 2011; Sierzchula et al., 2014) and locally implemented policy instruments (Mersky et al.”
A credible approach for measuring inframarginal participation in energy efficiency programs (2014, background): “Several related papers look at the impact of subsidies on adoption of energy-ef ﬁ cient vehicles (Chandra et al., 2010; Gallagher and Muehlegger, 2011; Sallee, 2011; Mian and Su ﬁ ,2012).”
What does an electric vehicle replace? (2019, background): “Chandra et al. (2010) find that the rebate programs in Canada primarily subsidize people who would have bought hybrid vehicles or fuel-efficient cars in any case and may not be the most effective way to encourage people to switch away from fuel-inefficient vehicles like large SUVs or luxury sport…”
Effectiveness of incentives on electric vehicle adoption in Norway (2016, background): “Chandra et al. (2010)) perform regression analysis on sale shares of hybrids in Canada and find that tax rebates generate about 25% of the hybrid sales.”
Modelling electric vehicle usage intentions: an empirical study in Malaysia (2015, background): “Tax rebates were found to be positively affected by the large increase in the market share of hybrid vehicles in Canada (Chandra et al., 2010) and Switzerland (De Haan et al.”