Public Charging Infrastructure and the Market Diffusion of Electric Vehicles

Arbeitspapier

A comprehensive roll-out of public charging infrastructure will be costly. However, its impact on the diffusion of electric vehicles (EVs) is not clear at all. Our study aims at estimating the extent to which an increasing availability of public charging infrastructure promotes consumers' decisions to switch to EVs. We 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. We measure charging infrastructure by its visibility, capacity and abundance in order to estimate its impact on EV adoption. A CS-ARDL approach is deployed in order to identify the structural long-run relationship between charging infrastructure and monthly EV registrations. There is evidence of a positive long-run relationship but on a rather low scale. We conclude that consumers do not necessarily react to the mere number of chargers but attach more importance to charging speed.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IHS Working Paper ; No. 9

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Industry Studies: Transportation and Utilities: General ; Economic Development: Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure ; Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes ; Transportation Economics: Government and Private Investment Analysis; Road Maintenance, Transportation Planning
• Subject: Electric vehicles ; charging infrastructure ; CS-ARDL

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Illmann, Ulrike ; Kluge, Jan
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institut für Höhere Studien - Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS)
• (where): Vienna
• (when): 2019

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/217045
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET