Gasoline Savings From Clean Vehicle Adoption

Tamara Sheldon and Rubal Dua

Discussion Papers from King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center

Abstract: Without the option to purchase plug-in electric and/or hybrid vehicles, conventional counterfactuals used in literature may underestimate the fuel savings from clean vehicle adoption, thus overestimating the costs of securing associated environmental benefits. Using a nationally representative sample of new car purchases in the U.S., a vehicle choice model-based counterfactual approach is proposed that allows for the prediction of what consumers would purchase if these clean vehicles were unavailable. The cost of demand-side policies in the form of financial incentives to encourage plug-in electric vehicle adoption is estimated.

Keywords: Carbon Dioxide Emissions; Clean vehicle adoption; Economic modeling; Fuel efficiency incentives; Fuel savings; Gasoline consumption; Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHG); Hybrid electric vehicles; Plug-in electric vehicles; Transportation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24 pages
Date: 2018-01
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DOI: 10.30573/KS--2018-DP026

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