Electric Vehicle Subsidies and Urban Air Pollution Disparities

Irene Jacqz and Sarah Johnston

Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2024, vol. 11, issue S1, S41 - S69

Abstract: Electric vehicles are subsidized at the federal, state, and local level. The design of these subsidies affects which consumers benefit most and where less-polluting vehicles are driven. We study these effects using a panel of new vehicle purchases at the zip-code level for seven US metro areas. We first describe patterns of neighborhood-level electric vehicle adoption and subsidy receipt. Adoption has been spatially uneven and concentrated in more advantaged and less polluted neighborhoods. We then pair a structural model of vehicle demand with a model of on-road emissions to study the effects of electric vehicle subsidy targeting for the Chicago metro area. A neighborhood income-targeted policy achieves lower overall reductions in carbon emissions but higher reductions in criteria pollution (NOx and PM2.5) in lower-income neighborhoods.

Date: 2024
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