Shedding light on the appropriateness of the (high) gasoline tax level in Germany

How much should gasoline be taxed when electric vehicles conquer the market? An analysis of the mismatch between efficient and existing gasoline taxes under emerging electric mobility

“…Impact on vehicle ownership and usage Anas and Hiramatsu (2012), Dahl (1995), Feng et al (2013), Gillingham et al (2013), Goodwin (1992), Goodwin et al (2004), Golob and Van Wissen (1989), Glaister (2002, 2004), Linn (2013) Fiscal effects and economic efficiency Antón-Sarabia and Hernández-Trillo (2014), De Borger (2001), De Borger and Mayeres (2007), Hirte and Tscharaktschiew (2015), Lin and Prince (2009), Mayeres and Proost (2013), Parry (2008Parry ( , 2011Parry ( , 2012, Parry and Small (2005), Parry andTimilsina (2010, 2015), Storchmann (2001), Tscharaktschiew (2014), West and Williams (2007) Distributional impacts Bento et al (2009), Metcalf (1999), Parry and Williams (2010), Poterba (1991), Sterner (2012), Walls and Hanson (1999), West and Williams (2004) Environmental impacts Austin and Dinan (2005), Fullerton and Gan (2005), Proost and Van Dender (2012), Steiner and Cludius (2010), Sterner (2007), Tscharaktschiew and Hirte (2012) Table 2 Overview electric mobility literature.…”

“…Local and global air pollution sum up to e G for gasoline cars, e D for diesel cars and e P for EVs. As opposed to these externalities whose importance is undisputed in the literature, the following cost categories are left out of consideration for the calculations, either because they are hard to pin down due to a lack of empirical evidence or because they are likely to be of minor relevance in general or for the case of Germany in particular: externalities from oil dependence, road damage costs, effects on nature and landscape, costs related to urban sprawl (see Tscharaktschiew (2014) for a related discussion and also for an extensive description of the data sources and the parameter derivations with respect to fuel powered ICE vehicles).…”

Emissions and External Environmental Costs from the Perspective of Differing Travel Purposes

“…In reality, however, policy measures focusing on single transport modes are commonly discussed. While these measures may get closer to 1st-best pricing from a transport-mode-specific perspective, environmental effects of the passenger transport sector can worsen, due to suboptimal pricing of other transport modes, that is, deviations from 1st-best pricing [40]. Consequently, the 2nd-best solution is to determine the optimal price for emissions subject to the constraint that alternative transport modes are not priced at 1st best [41].…”

How to road price in a world with electric vehicles and government budget constraints

“…The components of the optimal tax is thoroughly described in Tscharaktschiew (2014Tscharaktschiew ( , 2015, but we will give brief explanation here.…”

“…Several papers derive such solutions by finding the optimal gasoline (or diesel) tax. It has for instance been done for the cases UK and USA (Parry & Small, 2005), and Germany (Tscharaktschiew, 2014(Tscharaktschiew, , 2015.…”