Electric Vehicles for Everyone? State, District, and City Level Uptake Patterns in Germany
The authors examined the variations in electric vehicle (EV) registrations in Germany’s urban, semi-urban and rural regions across its federal states. The authors further analyzed how EV registrations are related to regional municipalities' tax revenue, private household incomes, and availability of public EV chargers. Of the 392,500 new EV registrations in 2020 nearly half were recorded in urban regions (48%), followed by semi-urban regions (40%) and rural regions (11%). In urban and rural regions, new EV registrations comprised 13% of new automobile registrations in 2020, with the share in semi-urban regions being 14%. There is wide variability in EV shares of new automobile registrations among Germany’s 401 regions. The differences in the lowest and highest combined EV registrations were most striking in semi-urban regions, ranging between 5% and 32%. This was followed by rural regions (5% to 31%), and urban regions (4% to 25%). The regions with above-average EV registrations are in the northern, western, and southern parts of the country. Environmental awareness, estimated by the number of Green Party votes during the European Parliament election, is positively correlated with EV registration across all three regional types. In addition, for battery electric vehicles (BEVs), home charging and disposable income show a strong connection with BEV registrations in semi-urban or rural regions, and access to public charging infrastructure shows a strong connection in semi-urban regions. For plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) the tax revenue in urban areas shows a statistical correlation with the PHEV share. Regions with EV registrations have adopted a mixture of local policy actions. To promote EV adoption, urban, semi-urban, and rural districts are including EV uptake targets in their strategic plans. Public charging infrastructure extension, along with information and awareness campaigns, have probably helped these districts towards high rates of new EV registrations.
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Corporate Authors:
International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT)
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Authors:
- Wappelhorst, Sandra
- Shen, Chang
- Bieker, Georg
- Morrison, Kyle
- Publication Date: 2022-5
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Edition: White Paper
- Features: Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 35p
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Electric vehicles; Market penetration; Regions; Registrations; Rural areas; Urban areas
- Geographic Terms: Germany
- Subject Areas: Energy; Highways; Vehicles and Equipment;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01851712
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Jul 18 2022 9:29AM