Battery Electric Vehicle Adoption and the Importance of Free Parking
Sammanfattning: In this thesis, we use market level sales data from the Norwegian automobile market to investigate the effect of free parking privileges for battery electric vehicles (BEVs) on sales of BEVs. Following a decision in 2016, municipalities were allowed to charge BEVs for parking as of January 1 2017. Although a small share of the Norwegian municipalities acted on the possibility to change parking policy, we find that the effect on BEV sales was negative. We estimate that the number of BEVs sold in 2017 would have been higher had the policy change not been introduced at all. In addition, we find that the number of charging points in a municipality has a positive effect on market shares of BEVs. These findings are statistically significant at the 1% level after controlling for fixed effects across markets and time, in order to account for unobserved car characteristics and individual consumer preferences for the characteristics across markets and temporal demand chocks.
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