Do retail businesses have efficient incentives to invest in public charging stations for electric vehicles?
Marie-Louise Arlt and
Nicolas Astier
Energy Economics, 2023, vol. 124, issue C
Abstract:
Many public charging stations for electric vehicles in the United States are chargers installed at the premises of pre-existing businesses such as grocery stores or restaurants. This paper investigates the incentives of these retail businesses to install and operate charging stations. First, we note that observed pricing schedules for charging stations significantly depart from both first-best and monopoly pricing. We argue that a possible explanation is that many hosting facilities may install a charging station primarily as a strategy to attract more customers to their core business. Second, we use an imperfect competition model to study retail businesses’ incentives to invest in charging stations. We show that hosting facilities may be trapped in a prisoner’s dilemma where investing in a charging station decreases their profit in the long run. However, the equilibrium level of investments in public charging stations need not differ from the socially optimal outcome.
Keywords: Electric vehicles; Charging network; Pricing; Investment incentives (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L11 L21 L91 R49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2023.106777
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