Access to charging infrastructure and the propensity to buy an electric car

Abstract

In this paper we utilize rich Swedish car buyer register data including socio-economic information such as home and work location of the car buyer and show that access to charging infrastructure increases the propensity to choose an electric car, both for fully electric cars and chargeable hybrids. For private charging, detached house and receiving a grant for installing charging infrastructure close to the apartment building, both have a strong effect in the model. For public charging, the results indicate that the density of charging stations close to home and work has a small but significant effect.