Political incentives to promote electric vehicles: Results from a stated adaption experiment

Abstract

The goal to limit global warming requires a shift to electric vehicles and a simultaneous reduction of vehicles in total. To achieve this transition in Germany, the government needs to provide financial incentives or disincentives for vehicle users. The potential effect of different price regulations towards the goal has been assessed by surveying 466 respondents. After providing detailed information on all mobility tools in the household, in a stated adaptation experiment, respondents were faced with four seenarios with varying price regulations concerning prices for fuel, electrieity, publie transport, CO2 and taxes. Given the reported mobility tools and supported by live calculation of resulting cost changes, respondents were asked 10 adapt their household fleet while being allowed to choose the mobility tools at a high level of detail. The paper presents the survey design, deseriptive analysis, and multiple discrete-continuous choice model as the intended analytical approach.