The role of demand-side incentives and charging infrastructure on plug-in electric vehicle adoption: analysis of US States
By Easwaran J. Narassimhan, Caley R Johnson. Environmental Research Letters, 2018
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In the US, over 400 state and local incentives have been issued to increase the adoption of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) since 2008. This article quantifies the influence of key incentives and enabling factors like charging infrastructure and receptive demographics on PEV adoption. The study focuses on three central questions. First, do consumers respond to certain types of state level vehicle purchase incentives? Second, does the density of public charging infrastructure increase PEV purchases? Finally, does the impact of various factors differ for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV), battery electric vehicles (BEV) and vehicle attributes within each category? Based on a regression of vehicle purchase data from 2008–2016, we found that tax incentives and charging infrastructure significantly influence per capita PEV purchases. Within tax incentives, rebates are generally more effective than tax credits. BEV purchases are more affected by tax incentives than PHEVs. The correlation of public charging and vehicle purchases increases with the battery-only driving range of a PHEV, while decreasing with increasing driving range of BEVs. Results indicate that early investments in charging infrastructure, particularly along highways; tax incentives targeting affordable BEVs and PHEVs with higher battery only range, and better reflection of the environmental cost of owning gasoline vehicles are likely to increase PEV adoption in the US.
Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Pollution, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
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Citations in the corpus
- High energy burden and low-income energy affordability: conclusions from a literature review (2020, background): “The federal government provides tax rebates to subsidize the purchase of electric vehicles, and many states are implementing programs to pay for the development of vehicle charging infrastructure (Narassimhan and Johnson 2018).”
- The rise of electric vehicles—2020 status and future expectations (2021, unknown): “Public charging infrastructure is clearly important to EV purchasers and supports EV sales by adding value (Narassimhan and Johnson 2018, Greene et al 2020).”
- Understanding the impact of reoccurring and non-financial incentives on plug-in electric vehicle adoption – A review (2019, methodology): “Four of these studies have focussed on the USA (Adepetu et al., 2016; Javid and Nejat, 2017; Narassimhan and Johnson, 2018; Wee et al., 2018), one study investigated both the USA and Europe (Plötz et al.”