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The relative importance of price and driving range on electric vehicle adoption: Los Angeles case study

Authors: Adedamola Adepetu, Srinivasan Keshav

Published in: Transportation | Issue 2/2017

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Electric vehicles (EVs) are still a maturing technology. Barriers to their adoption include price and range anxiety. EV batteries are significant in determining both EV prices and costs. In this work, we focus on the impact of a high-capacity battery and EV rebates on an EV ecosystem. Using survey data from Los Angeles, California, we simulate different cases of battery costs and prices by means of an agent-based EV ecosystem model. We find that even in Los Angeles, a geographically spread out city, the price of EVs is a more significant barrier to adoption than EV range. In fact, even a quintupling of battery size at no additional costs improves EV adoption by only 5 %. Therefore, policy makers should focus more on affordability than range in promoting EV adoption.

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Title: The relative importance of price and driving range on electric vehicle adoption: Los Angeles case study
Authors: Adedamola Adepetu
Srinivasan Keshav
Publication date: 12-08-2015
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Transportation / Issue 2/2017
Print ISSN: 0049-4488
Electronic ISSN: 1572-9435
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11116-015-9641-y

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