Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/296889 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
Memorandum No. 01/2022
Publisher: 
University of Oslo, Department of Economics, Oslo
Abstract: 
We study how the adoption of battery electric vehicles - a key technology for decarbonizing transportation - responds to two local privileges: road toll exemption and bus lane access. Combining rich Norwegian microdata with a quasiexperimental research design where we exploit household-level variations in incentives on work commutes, we find sizable and positive effects on electric vehicle ownership. The increase in electric vehicles from having road tolls and bus lanes on work commutes is offset by a similar decline in conventional vehicles. Road tolls also reduce brown driving, but lower CO2 emissions are largely explained by the existence of fewer conventional vehicles.
Subjects: 
electric vehicles
local incentives
road tolls
bus lanes
JEL: 
H23
Q55
Q58
R41
R48
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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