Household demand and willingness to pay for clean vehicles

Combining stated and revealed choice research to simulate the neighbor effect: The case of hybrid-electric vehicles

“…Valuation of fuel cost is close to Mau et al's (2008) estimates, and valuation of vehicle power is similar to that found by Ewing and Sarigollu (2000). The positive valuation of the HEV ranges between $2000 and $3500 among market share scenarios, which is within the $2000-5000 range of willingness to pay found by Potoglou and Kanaroglou (2007). However, like many SP choice models, when the attributes of real HEVs and comparable conventional vehicles are entered into Eq.…”

“…Discrete choice modeling has been frequently applied to low-emissions vehicles (e.g., Bunch et al, 1993;Ewing and Sarigollu, 2000;Potoglou and Kanaroglou, 2007). Because SP and RP data can have complementary strengths, a growing body of literature demonstrates the potential for ''joint'' modeling techniques (e.g., Swait et al, 1994;Brownstone et al, 2000;Train, 2003;Hensher et al, 2005).…”

Private household demand for vehicles on alternative fuels and drive trains: a review

“…Second, research from the 80s and 90s mainly focused on the potential demand for battery EVs [13,14,24,27,38,39,54,55,79,90], while studies from the late 90s and 2000s rather address a mix of AFVs including EVs, LPG, CNG or methanol [21][22][23]33,34,42,81,87]. In line with technological developments, recent research also concentrates on HEVs [3,10,26,29,31,32,45,49,53,72], PHEVs [ 9 , 11], bi ofuels [51,68,69,80,89,91], hydrogen [2,66,74,76,86] and HFCVs [46,61,62,65]. Finally, most literature has been published in America.…”

“…Later research also included HEVs, PHEVs and HFCVs in the vehicle choice experiments. These reviewed CM studies reveal that the most critical factors for the adoption of AFVs are price characteristics (e.g., purchase price, fuel costs) [3,26,29,33,72,79], followed by performance and convenience attributes (e.g., driving range, recharging times, fuel availability) [13,14,21,24,27,29,33,42,72,79]. Although people express a willingness to pay for reduced emission levels [21,23,87], environmental benefits are consistently found to be of minor importance compared to these attributes [26,27,34,72].…”

Urban Road Transportation Externalities: Costs and Choice of Policy Instruments

“…Haan, Peters, and Scholz (2007) find that tax rebate incentives in Swiss cantons could lead to significant increases in sales of such cars in those areas. Similarly Potoglou and Kanaroglou (2007) find that reduced monetary costs, purchase tax relief, and low emission rates are the factors that would encourage households to buy cleaner vehicles within the metropolitan area of Hamilton, Canada. The total cost of the electric vehicle (EV) is at least 50 percent more than that of gasoline-powered cars; thus its air pollution mitigation benefits alone would not be enough to give the EV a clear advantage against all conventional cars (Funk and Rabl 1999).…”