Hybrid EV and Pure BEV Owners: A Comparative Analysis of Household Demographics, Travel Behavior, and Energy Use

Ziyi Dai, Michael O Rodgers and Randall Guensler

Institute of Transportation Studies, Working Paper Series from Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis

Abstract: Electric Vehicles (EVs) significantly reduce energy consumption and emissions from on-road operations and help create more sustainable transportation environment by reducing emissions from the entire well-to wheel energy cycle. Differences between hybrid electric vehicle (HEV), plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV), and battery electric vehicles (BEV) users is an important element in understanding potential impacts on travel demand and vehicle adoption, the fact that these vehicles may be adopted into households that undertake very different vehicle activities and energy usage patterns has not been a primary focus in the literature. This study differentiates between HEV, PHEV, and BEV users across three factors: owner household socio-demographic attributes, household daily travel patterns, and household energy usage profiles. The analyses examine factors that appear to influence users’ preferences towards specific EV types and how the selection of different EV types potentially relates to household socio demographics and daily travel patterns. The 2019 Puget Sound Regional Council travel survey data set serves as the main analytical dataset. Influential factors identified as significant through statistical approaches are employed as variables for developing a two-phase choice model for determining potential EV-purchasing households and their choice of specific EV type. As EVs continue to capture increasing market share over time, these research findings and the resulting vehicle type choice model are expected to significantly improve future travel demand model development, allowing activity-based travel demand models to assign specific vehicles to specific households and then to individual trips in planning scenario analysis. View the NCST Project Webpage

Keywords: Engineering; Social and Behavioral Sciences; Alternatives analysis; Automobile ownership; Consumer preferences; Demographics; Electric vehicles; Energy consumption; Hybrid vehicles; Plug-in hybrid vehicles; Travel patterns (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-05-01
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