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Research Sketches 3: Investing in Green Transition Location: Auditorium (Level 1) Session Chair: Jeffrey York, University of Colorado Boulder | |
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Are we there yet? Evaluating the transition to EVs 1: Harvard Business School, United States of America; 2: BMW Group, Germany Transitioning from internal combustion vehicles (ICEs) to battery electric vehicles (BEVs) is widely considered essential to achieve climate goals. Although BEV adoption is rising, it varies substantially across regions and remains low in many countries despite significant investment from automakers and governments. Prior research has emphasized behavioral impediments to adoption, like range anxiety, and explored infrastructure design to support BEVs, often relying on surveys or niche settings like car sharing. However, little is known about how BEVs are used in everyday life, how their usage compares to ICEs, and how charging infrastructure shapes these patterns. Using a large dataset of U.S. vehicles, we demonstrate that BEVs are driven as much overall as ICEs but make about three fewer long-distance trips (>150km) per year. We find that increasing charging density to a moderate level reduces this long-distance trip gap more effectively than increasing charging reliability. We further show that convenient home-charging, rather than range anxiety, better explains differences between BEV recharging and ICE refueling. Our results can help automakers design more attractive service offerings for BEV buyers, guide infrastructure providers and governments to improve charging access, and offer empirical evidence to inform public understanding and academic research on real-world BEV usage. | |