An exploratory policy analysis of electric vehicle sales competition and sensitivity to infrastructure in Europe

By Gillian Harrison, Christian Thiel. 2017

170 citations recorded by the source corpus.

This research contributes to discussions about policy interventions to stimulate the transition of vehicle technology. Concentrating on passenger cars, an extensive system dynamics based market agent model of powertrain technology transitions within the EU up to 2050 is employed. With a focus on subsidy scenarios for both infrastructure deployment and vehicle purchase, and set within the context of the EU fleet emission regulations, we find that there are important interactions between different powertrain types and with infrastructure provision. For example, strong plug-in electric vehicle (PiEV) policy could inhibit the maturity of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. Infrastructure provision is important for improving the utility of a PiEV, but we find that in the early market it may have a weaker correlation with uptake than other policy options, until the PiEV stock share is over around 5%. Furthermore, an attempt to install a ratio of much more than one charge point per 10 PiEV may lead to little gains and high costs. PiEV sales are relatively insensitive at target levels over 25 PiEV per charge point. The results of our study can help policymakers to find the right balance and timing of measures targeting the transition towards low carbon alternative vehicles.

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

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/64cf87e304ea5ae4cf071df27e9cd9c69b86f0ef

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Economics and Econometrics

1. T. Gnann
2. F. Sprei
3. P. Plötz

In Electrical and Electronic Engineering

1. T. Gnann
2. F. Sprei
3. P. Plötz

In Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

1. T. Gnann
2. F. Sprei
3. P. Plötz

Citations in the corpus

• How much charging infrastructure do electric vehicles need? 
A review of the evidence and international comparison (2019, background): “To support the diffusion of these vehicles, political actors are often confronted with the planning and rollout of public charging infrastructure (D'Appolonia et al., 2016; Harrison and Thiel, 2017).”