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The authors investigate the impacts of a combination of incentives on the purchase decision of electric vehicle buyers in California from 2010 through 2017. The authors employ a comprehensive survey on over 14,000 purchasers of electric vehicles in the state of California. The survey covers a swath of purchase intentions, general demographics, and importance of various incentives. The authors' results indicate that the most important incentives for plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) owners are the federal tax credit, the state rebate, and the high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane access. In addition, the importance of the incentives and their associated effect on purchase behavior has been changing over time: respondents are less likely to not change their decision and more likely to not buy a vehicle at all as time passes and the technology moves away from early adopters.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADC80 Standing Committee on Alternative Transportation Fuels and Technologies.

19-04255

English

0000-0002-0476-7909

9p

2019

Transportation Research Board 98th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; References; Tables

Consumer behavior; Demographics; Electric vehicles; High occupancy vehicle lanes; Incentives; Purchasing; Surveys; Taxes; Time duration

Rebates; Tax credits

California

Economics; Energy; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Vehicles and Equipment

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2019 Paper #19-04255

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Dec 7 2018 9:47AM