The barriers, determinants, and willingness-to-pay in electric motorcycle conversion (EMC) adoption

IF 9.3 2区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Energy Policy Pub Date : 2024-09-27 DOI:10.1016/j.enpol.2024.114361

Muhamad Rizki , Oleksandr Rossolov , Yusak O. Susilo

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Abstract

The rise in motorcycle use in Southeast Asian countries like Indonesia has caused environmental issues and transitioning from fossil-fuel to electric motorcycles (EM) will reduce emissions and improve air quality. This study aims to investigate the barriers, determinants, and willingness-to-pay in electric motorcycle conversion (EMC). In a choice experiment, data from motorcycle users in Bali, Indonesia, was collected and analysed in this study using K-modes cluster analysis and the Mixed-Logit Model. The study identified different barriers to EMC among motorcyclist groups: mix-motor commuters and hardcore oldies concerned with financial challenges, all-day riders with mature motorcycles face a lack of information on EMC costs and procedures, and higher-power enthusiasts and newbies with light motorcycles concerned with daily travel disruptions during the conversion process. This study also found waiting and conversion time to play a role in EM adoption and travellers who use older motorcycles are the most likely to adopt EMC. Lower-income individuals tend to be more inclined towards EMC and younger demographics lean towards internal combustion engine (ICE) motorcycles. Moreover, the study indicates that EMC reduces the adoption of ICE motorcycles more than conventional EM. A 50% increase in conversion time lowers EMC adoption probability by 5.2%pts. and increases new ICE motorcycle adoption by 3%pts. and new EM adoption by 2.2%pts. Additionally, motorcyclists are more willing to invest in EMC if it means reducing conversion time/charging costs, particularly for older motorcycles. This study offers several policy recommendations for accelerating EMC adoption in Indonesia.

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采用电动摩托车改装（EMC）的障碍、决定因素和支付意愿

印度尼西亚等东南亚国家摩托车使用量的增加引发了环境问题，而从化石燃料摩托车过渡到电动摩托车（EM）将减少排放并改善空气质量。本研究旨在调查电动摩托车转换（EMC）的障碍、决定因素和支付意愿。在选择实验中，本研究收集了印度尼西亚巴厘岛摩托车用户的数据，并使用 K-模式聚类分析和混合对数模型进行了分析。研究发现了不同摩托车用户群体在进行 EMC 转换时遇到的不同障碍：混合动力通勤者和 "铁杆老人 "担心经济上的困难；拥有成熟摩托车的全日骑行者缺乏有关 EMC 转换成本和程序的信息；拥有轻型摩托车的大功率爱好者和新手担心在转换过程中会影响日常出行。这项研究还发现，等待和转换时间对采用电动车也有影响，使用老式摩托车的旅行者最有可能采用 EMC。低收入人群更倾向于使用 EMC，而年轻人则更倾向于使用内燃机（ICE）摩托车。此外，研究还表明，EMC 比传统 EM 更能降低内燃机摩托车的采用率。转换时间每增加 50%，EMC 的采用概率就会降低 5.2%，内燃机摩托车的新采用概率会增加 3%，电动摩托车的新采用概率会增加 2.2%。此外，如果 EMC 意味着减少转换时间/充电成本，摩托车驾驶员更愿意投资 EMC，特别是对于老式摩托车。本研究为加快 EMC 在印尼的应用提供了若干政策建议。

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Energy Policy 管理科学-环境科学

CiteScore

17.30

自引率

5.60%

发文量

540

审稿时长

7.9 months

期刊介绍： Energy policy is the manner in which a given entity (often governmental) has decided to address issues of energy development including energy conversion, distribution and use as well as reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in order to contribute to climate change mitigation. The attributes of energy policy may include legislation, international treaties, incentives to investment, guidelines for energy conservation, taxation and other public policy techniques. Energy policy is closely related to climate change policy because totalled worldwide the energy sector emits more greenhouse gas than other sectors.