Incentives for promoting Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) adoption in Norway

By Kristin Ystmark Bjerkan, T. Norbech, M. Nordtømme. 2016

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Abstract Norway has become a global forerunner in the field of electromobility and the BEV market share is far higher than in any other country. One likely reason for this is strong incentives for promoting purchase and ownership of BEVs. The purpose of this study is to describe the role of incentives for promoting BEVs, and to determine what incentives are critical for deciding to buy a BEV and what groups of buyers respond to different types of incentives. The questions are answered with data from a survey among nearly 3400 BEV owners in Norway. Exemptions from purchase tax and VAT are critical incentives for more than 80% of the respondents. This is very much in line with previous research, which suggests that up-front price reduction is the most powerful incentive in promoting EV adoption. To a substantial number of BEV owners, however, exemption from road tolling or bus lane access is the only decisive factor. Analyses show that there are clear delineations between incentive groups, both in terms of age, gender, and education. Income is a less prominent predictor, which probably results from the competitive price of BEVs in the Norwegian market. Perhaps most interesting is the assumed relation between incentives and character of transport systems the respondents engage in.

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

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Citations in the corpus

The effectiveness of financial purchase incentives for battery electric vehicles – A review of the evidence (2017, background): “[4] Post Purchase Survey BEV Norway 3400 Owners of BEVs in Norway 2014 13.”
Effectiveness of incentives on electric vehicle adoption in Norway (2016, result): “Bjerkan et al. (2016) used surveys to look at stated importance of different incentives and found pricing, toll and bus lane access to be the most important.”
Understanding the impact of reoccurring and non-financial incentives on plug-in electric vehicle adoption – A review (2019, background): “, 2016), and surveys of PEV buyers have found that they report this as being an important incentive in their purchase decision (Bjerkan et al., 2016; Figenbaum and Kolbenstvedt, 2016).”
A survey-based assessment of how existing and potential electric vehicle owners perceive range anxiety (2020, background): “Second, governments have been providing incentives for purchasing and operating EVs, such as lower registrations costs and free public charging (Bjerkan et al., 2016).”
How to activate moral norm to adopt electric vehicles in China? An empirical study based on extended norm activation theory (2018, background): “Most of them are concerned with the influences of three sets of factors: technological factors, consumer characteristics and contextual factors (Bjerkan et al., 2016; Sierzchula et al., 2014).”