Demand for alternative-fuel vehicles when registration taxes are high

Mabit, Stefan Lindhard; Fosgerau, Mogens

doi:10.1016/j.trd.2010.11.001

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“…Gender was statistically significant for low CO 2 petrol and diesel vehicles, with females more likely to purchase these alternatives (Low CO 2 Petrol = 0.972; Low CO 2 Diesel = 0.194). This could reflect a tendency for women to be more environmentally-conscious than men, as found by some other studies (Dagsvik et al, 2002;Golob and Hensher, 1998;Mabit and Fosgerau, 2011), however, this does not appear to apply to exempt EEVs.…”

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confidence: 77%

“…Several studies have investigated the demand for EEVs through stated-preference (SP) surveys across multiple countries, including: Denmark (Mabit and Fosgerau, 2011) Germany (Hackbarth and Madlener, 2013;Ziegler, 2012), Norway (Dagsvik et al, 2002), United Kingdom (Batley et al, 2004), Canada (Ewing and Sarigöllü, 1998), USA (Brownstone et al, 1996;Bunch et al, 1993;Hess et al, 2012;Musti and Kockelman, 2011) and Australia (Beck et al, 2013). Although each of these studies differed in their approach, all involved SP surveys where characteristics were varied among various types of vehicles including EEVs and presented to respondents, who in turn made hypothetical choices about which vehicle they would be most likely to purchase.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Mabit and Fosgerau (2011) in an analysis of the demand for alternatively fuelled vehicles (AFVs) in Denmark and Dagsvik et al (2002) in a similar analysis for Norway, both found that if the cost and performance between AFVs and conventional vehicles were equal, due to environmental preferences, AFVs would be chosen. Contrary to the German studies, however, both studies found that females were more likely to purchase electric and/or hydrogen vehicles.…”

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The impact of a congestion pricing exemption on the demand for new energy efficient vehicles in Stockholm

Whitehead

Franklin

Washington

2014

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

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As governments seek to transition to more efficient vehicle fleets, one strategy has been to incentivize 'green' vehicle choice by exempting some of these vehicles from road user charges. As an example, to stimulate sales of Energy-Efficient Vehicles (EEVs) in Sweden, some of these automobiles were exempted from Stockholm's congestion tax. In this paper the effect this policy had on the demand for new, privately-owned, exempt EEVs is assessed by first estimating a model of vehicle choice and then by applying this model to simulate vehicle alternative market shares under different policy scenarios. The database used to calibrate the model includes owner-specific demographics merged with vehicle registry data for all new private vehicles registered in Stockholm County during 2008. Characteristics of individuals with a higher propensity to purchase an exempt EEV were identified. The most significant factors included intra-cordon residency (positive), distance from home to the CBD (negative), and commuting across the cordon (positive). By calculating vehicle shares from the vehicle choice model and then comparing these estimates to a simulated scenario where the congestion tax exemption was inactive, the exemption was estimated to have substantially increased the share of newly purchased, private, exempt EEVs in Stockholm by 1.8% (+/-0.3%; 95% C.I.) to a total share of 18.8%. This amounts to an estimated 10.7% increase in private, exempt EEV purchases during 2008 i.e. 519 privately owned, exempt EEVs.

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The impact of a congestion pricing exemption on the demand for new energy efficient vehicles in Stockholm

Whitehead

Franklin

Washington

2014

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

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“…of A throughout its whole life, from its manufacturing to its disposal or recycling. For example, it has been shown that a high registration tax on classical vehicles increases the market shares of alternative-fuel vehicles (Mabit and Fosgerau 2011). The tax on B relates to the effective use of A.…”

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From value-added tax to a damage and value-added tax partially based on life cycle assessment: principles and feasibility

Timmermans

Achten

2018

Int J Life Cycle Assess

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Purpose The purpose of this article is to examine the arguments in favor of a shift from value-added tax (VAT) or sales tax to a damage and value-added tax (DaVAT) partially based on the life cycle assessment (LCA) of goods and services. With this shift, goods and services that seriously harm the environment and human health will be priced up, those that impact them less will be priced down. The paper recalls the proposal made by De Camillis and Goralczyk (Int J Life Cycle Assess 18: [263][264][265][266][267][268][269][270][271][272] 2013) to differentiate the VAT rate associated with products according to their environmental impacts over their life cycle. The paper suggests a new way to convert VAT into DaVAT, examines the operating principles of such a system, and considers its practical feasibility. The new policy tool based on LCA presented is intended to be applied to every country wishing to reform its consumption tax system in order to strive for a more sustainable future. Some aspects specific to countries having the same currency, notably the Euro zone, are also discussed. Methods The proposal of De Camillis and Goralczyk is discussed from the perspective of both environmental performance and compliance with LCA standards. To overcome the identified difficulties, a new way of adapting VAT (or consumption taxes in general) according to LCA is suggested. The proposal relies on three essential points: (i) apply VAT (or consumption taxes in general) to all goods and services and reduce its multiple rates to one single low rate (e.g., 3%) called uniform VAT (UVAT); (ii) add to UVAT a per-unit tax called global damage tax (GDT) calculated on the basis of environmental impacts assessed by means of specific or generic LCAs. In the case of potentially high-polluting products or industries, a specific LCA will be automatically imposed. The obligation to assess high-polluting activities already exists in many countries with, e.g., environmental impact studies, but the impacts are not necessarily evaluated by LCA; (iii) in order to reflect environmental, social, or ethical concerns specific to a country, another damage tax termed specific damage tax (SDT) is proposed that extends beyond LCA. DaVAT is the sum of UVAT, GDT, and SDT. DaVAT is conceived not as an additional burden but rather as a shift of taxation, as the rate of the old consumption taxes can decrease proportionally to the increase of GDT. DaVAT is also designed in such a way that the erosion of tax revenues, when pollutant would decline, is offset by the extension of the tax to all goods and services and by the possibility to gradually re-increase the UVAT rate when the number of highly polluting products decreases. Results and discussion The proposal is examined first from a theoretical point of view by considering which principles should be used to comply with LCA standards and general requirements of (environmental) tax policies. Four general principles emerge: consistency in the choice of the functional unit and in the characterization, n...

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“…J€ aggi, Erath, Dobler, & Axhausen (2012) established a model that allocated car types to agent-based simulations to estimate the effects of fuel price on households' fleet choice. Moreover, several travel demand studies about hybrid and electric cars have appeared in the recent literature (Achnicht, 2012;Glerum & Bierlaire, 2012;Glerum, Themans, & Bierlaire, 2011;Jensen, Cherchi, & Mabit, 2012;Mabit & Fosgerau, 2011;Rasouli & Timmermans, 2016). However, a limitation of these studies is their typical restriction to a single energy-saving strategy only.…”

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Households transport-home energy conservation strategies in response to energy price policies: A stated adaptation experiment based on portfolio choices and cross effects designs

Yang

Timmermans

2016

International Journal of Sustainable Transportation

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This article explores consumer investment choice in long-term energy conservation technology and assesses trade-offs in energy saving behaviour between the housing and transportation domains. The long-term energy conservation choice problem is conceptualized as a portfolio choice problem. Consequently, to measure trade-offs between investments in housing and transport options, a cross effects choice design is developed in which respondents were shown one or more alternate ways to reduce their current energy consumption: (1) investing in new technology in the house, such as solar panels; (2) exchanging the current car for a more energy efficient car; (3) buying a new energy-efficient car, such as EV or solar car; (4) moving house to reduce current travel distances. To help respondents linking these options to their current energy consumption, a new Web-based survey system (SINA) to implement and administer stated adaptation experiments was developed. The system was used to collect two sets of data. First, data about out-of-home and in-home energy consumption, together with detailed time use data, was collected. Second, using a cross effects design, respondents were asked to select a portfolio of energy-saving strategies in response to different energy pricing policy scenarios. Results reported in this paper are based on 572 respondents who completed the survey and responded to seven adaptation questions based on their current energy expenditures. A random parameters logit model is estimated to predict the probability of choosing a particular portfolio of energy-saving options. Estimation results indicate that individuals from different socio-demographic groups exhibit varied preferences. The saving option characteristics, especially cost related characteristics have significant effects on individuals' preferences. Moreover, the results also showed significant effects of choice set composition on energy saving options. Further, the energy pricing policies had showed mixed effects on individual's preferences.

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Demand for alternative-fuel vehicles when registration taxes are high

Cited by 147 publications

References 6 publications

The impact of a congestion pricing exemption on the demand for new energy efficient vehicles in Stockholm

The impact of a congestion pricing exemption on the demand for new energy efficient vehicles in Stockholm

From value-added tax to a damage and value-added tax partially based on life cycle assessment: principles and feasibility

Households transport-home energy conservation strategies in response to energy price policies: A stated adaptation experiment based on portfolio choices and cross effects designs

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