10.5281/ZENODO.4021335
Coates, Stephanie A.
Stephanie A.
Coates
If You Build It, Will They Come?: Does Increasing the Number of EV Chargers Increase the Number of EVs?
Zenodo
2020
electric vehicle (EV)
electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE)
incentive
modelling
policy
2020-09-09
Conference paper
https://zenodo.org/record/4021336
10.5281/zenodo.4021336
https://zenodo.org/communities/evs33
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Open Access
<p>Electric vehicles (EVs - in this paper defined as pure battery electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid vehicles) are viewed as an essential part of the strategy to decrease our carbon footprint and lower our impact on climate change. Their adoption is increasing; however, significant barriers remain. Range anxiety is most often cited as a reason for EV’s lack of penetration in the market. This paper examines whether increasing the number of EV charging outlets to mitigate this concern would have a positive effect on EV adoption. Panel data is used from 50 states plus the District of Columbia to analyze the market share of EV sales annually from 2011 to 2017. According to a fixed-effect statistical modeling technique, the number of outlets is not statistically significant suggesting that money and resources could be better spent on other incentives to encourage EV usage.</p>