What has driven the adoption of BEV and PHEV in the EU?

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Research in Transportation Business and Management Pub Date : 2025-02-28 DOI:10.1016/j.rtbm.2025.101331

Sónia Almeida Neves, António Cardoso Marques

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Abstract

Moving towards greater electric mobility in Europe is fundamental for energy transition and reducing fossil fuel dependence. This paper analyses the role of socioeconomic, environmental, and technical factors on the diffusion of battery electric vehicles (BEV) and plug-in electric vehicles (PHEV) into the market. Annual panel data from 2010 to 2020 for 25 European countries were used by recurring to the Driscoll-Kraay estimator. BEV and PHEV sales market share was employed to measure both vehicles' diffusion. The main findings indicate that the fast public charging stations drive the adoption of both BEV and PHEV. The normal charging stations block the adoption of BEV and have no significant impact on PHEV sales. This paper provides empirical evidence suggesting that higher income levels do not lead to substituting traditional vehicles for EV. Particular attention should be paid to the negative role of environmental tax revenues in adopting both BEV and PHEV. Our findings indicate that those paying additional taxes for polluting activities do not have the financial capacity to buy an EV. To address this situation, policymakers could incentivise the use of EV instead of encouraging purchases, providing, for instance, special prices at tolls.

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期刊介绍： Research in Transportation Business & Management (RTBM) will publish research on international aspects of transport management such as business strategy, communication, sustainability, finance, human resource management, law, logistics, marketing, franchising, privatisation and commercialisation. Research in Transportation Business & Management welcomes proposals for themed volumes from scholars in management, in relation to all modes of transport. Issues should be cross-disciplinary for one mode or single-disciplinary for all modes. We are keen to receive proposals that combine and integrate theories and concepts that are taken from or can be traced to origins in different disciplines or lessons learned from different modes and approaches to the topic. By facilitating the development of interdisciplinary or intermodal concepts, theories and ideas, and by synthesizing these for the journal''s audience, we seek to contribute to both scholarly advancement of knowledge and the state of managerial practice. Potential volume themes include: -Sustainability and Transportation Management- Transport Management and the Reduction of Transport''s Carbon Footprint- Marketing Transport/Branding Transportation- Benchmarking, Performance Measurement and Best Practices in Transport Operations- Franchising, Concessions and Alternate Governance Mechanisms for Transport Organisations- Logistics and the Integration of Transportation into Freight Supply Chains- Risk Management (or Asset Management or Transportation Finance or ...): Lessons from Multiple Modes- Engaging the Stakeholder in Transportation Governance- Reliability in the Freight Sector