Public charging infrastructure and the market diffusion of electric vehicles

A comprehensive roll-out of public charging infrastructure will be costly. However, its impact on the diffusion of electric vehicles (EVs) is not clear. Our study aims at estimating the extent to which an increasing availability of public charging infrastructure promotes consumers decisions to switch to EVs. The authors make use of a German data set including monthly registrations of new cars at the ZIP-code level between 2012 and 2017 and match it with the official registry of charging stations. The authors measure charging infrastructure by its quantity, capacity and abundance in order to estimate its impact on EV adoption. A dynamic heterogeneous panel approach is deployed in order to identify the structural long-run relationship between charging infrastructure and monthly EV registrations. The authors find evidence of a positive long-run relationship (and also of a causal link) but on a rather low scale. They conclude that consumers do not necessarily react to the mere number of public chargers but attach more importance to charging speed and are to a large extent influenced by unobservable common factors.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2020.102413
• Record URL:
  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1361920920306003
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  • © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Illmann, Ulrike
  • Kluge, Jan
• Publication Date: 2020-9

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 102413
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment
  • Volume: 86
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 1361-9209
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/13619209

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Consumer behavior; Electric vehicle charging; Electric vehicles; Infrastructure; Market penetration; Speed
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Energy; Highways; Terminals and Facilities; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01748412
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 24 2020 9:15AM