Range extenders: An innovative approach to range anxiety in electric vehicles

Ian Clarke and Athena Piterou

No 22467, Greenwich Papers in Political Economy from University of Greenwich, Greenwich Political Economy Research Centre

Abstract: Electric vehicles have been a source of major innovation but the problem of vehicle range persists. Range extenders, auxiliary power units that can be attached to vehicles as a trailer, seek to solve the problem by providing additional range during longer journeys. This study uses patent data, Social Network Analysis and qualitative data to examine the development of this technology. It finds that small firms have made significant progress in technological terms and have also designed credible business models. They have met resistance from larger vehicle manufacturers, however, whose preference is to wait for developments in battery density despite great uncertainty as to when these will come.

Keywords: electric vehicles; innovation; range anxiety; range extenders (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-03-08
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Published in International Journal Automotive Technology and Management 1-2.19(2019): pp. 104-124

Downloads: (external link)
http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/22467/7/22467%20CL ... nge_Anxiety_2018.pdf

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gpe:wpaper:22467

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Greenwich Papers in Political Economy from University of Greenwich, Greenwich Political Economy Research Centre Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Nadine Edwards ().