Environmental impacts of enlarging the market share of electric vehicles

Daniel De Wolf, Ngagne Diop and Moez Kilani
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Daniel De Wolf: Université catholique de Louvain, LIDAM/CORE, Belgium

No 3209, LIDAM Reprints CORE from Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE)

Abstract: We extend a multimodal transport model to simulate an increase of the market share of electric vehicles. The model, which is described in detail in Kilani et al. (Sustainability 14(3):1535, 2022), covers the north of France and includes both urban and intercity trips. It is a multi-agents simulation based on the MATsim framework and calibrated on observed traffic flows. We find that the emissions of pollutant gases decrease in comparable proportion to the market share of the electric vehicles. When only users with shorter trips switch to electric vehicles, the impact is limited and demand for charging stations is small since most users will charge by night at home. When the government is able to target users with longer trips, the impact can be higher by more than a factor of two. But, in this case, our model shows that it is important to increase the number of charging stations with an optimized deployment for their accessibility.

Keywords: Transport modeling and simulation; Electric vehicles; Deployment of charging stations; Local pollution; North of France; Spatial distribution; Decision support; CO2 emissions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H23 Q5 R4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20
Date: 2022-08-31
Note: In: Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/s10018-022-00350-0

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