Cap or no cap? What can governments do to promote EV sales?
Zunian Luo
MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany
Abstract:
This paper examines the effect of the federal EV income tax subsidy on EV sales. I find that reduction of the federal subsidy caused sales to decline by 43.2%. To arrive at this result, I employ historical time series data from the Department of Energy Alternative Fuels Data Center. Using the fact that the subsidy is available only for firms with fewer than 200,000 cumulative EV sales, I separate EV models into two groups. The treatment group consists of models receiving the full subsidy, and the control group consists of models receiving the reduced subsidy. This allows for a difference in differences (DiD) model structure. To examine the robustness of the results, I conduct regression analyses. Due to a relatively small sample size, the regression coefficients lack statistical significance. Above all, my results suggest that federal incentives designed to promote EV consumption are successful in their objectives.
Keywords: environmental economics; climate change; electric vehicles; economic policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-10-31
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