External costs of electric vehicles

Patrick Jochem, Claus Doll and Wolf Fichtner

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Abstract: Electric vehicles (EV) are often considered a promising technology to decrease external costs of road transport. Therefore, main external cost components are estimated for EV and internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEV). These include costs of accidents, air pollu-tion, climate change, noise, and congestion. All components are estimated over the product lifetime and, where appropriate, differentiated according to fuel type, vehicle size as well as emission location and time. The advantage of this differentiation is, however, compen-sated by high uncertainties of most cost estimates. Overall, the external costs of EV and ICEV do not differ significantly. Only for climate change, local air pollutants in congested inner-cities, and noise some advantageous effects can be observed for EV. The advantages depend strongly on the national electricity power plant portfolio and potentially also on the charging strategy. Controlled charging might allow for higher emission reductions than uncontrolled charging of EV.

Keywords: External costs; Environmental impact; Electric vehicle; Passenger car; Internal combustion engine vehicle (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O33 R42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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