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Consumer-Oriented Policy towards Diffusion of Electric Vehicles: City-Level Evidence from China
- Source :
- Sustainability; Volume 8; Issue 12; Pages: 1343, Sustainability, Vol 8, Iss 12, p 1343 (2016)
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2016.
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Abstract
- Public policy is crucial for the diffusion of green innovation, and debates exist about the effects of different policies. This paper explores appropriate types of policy instruments by explaining the quick rise in sales of electric vehicles (EVs) in China. Based on a three-year longitudinal dataset across 88 cities, the study shows that consumer-oriented policies are able to significantly promote EV diffusion. Consumer-oriented policies target consumers to facilitate their usage of cars and lower the lifecycle cost, and typical examples include electricity charging and traffic management. This paper contributes to the literature of clean technology policy in two ways. Firstly, it reveals and empirically tests the importance of consumer-oriented policy instruments for the deployment of green innovation. Secondly, it is one of very few scholarly works offering a detailed review of city-level policies in China’s EV industry, which will be useful for scholars who are also interested in similar topics.
- Subjects :
- China
Diffusion (acoustics)
policy instrument
business.product_category
020209 energy
Geography, Planning and Development
TJ807-830
Public policy
02 engineering and technology
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Clean technology
TD194-195
Renewable energy sources
electric vehicle
innovation diffusion
pilot city
Electric vehicle
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Economics
GE1-350
Marketing
Industrial organization
Environmental effects of industries and plants
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
business.industry
Environmental sciences
Policy studies
Software deployment
Electricity
business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20711050
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Sustainability; Volume 8; Issue 12; Pages: 1343
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....41d60092e1c24ed791ff9b6329f17959
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/su8121343