COMPARING EUROPEAN MEMBER STATE ELECTRIC VEHICLE UPTAKE INCENTIVES AND CHARGING INFRASTRUCTURE PROVISION

The electric vehicle (EV) market is still in early stages in Europe. European Union (EU) Member States (MSs) are adopting different strategies to incentivise users to take up the new technology, regarding both the vehicle and its supportive infrastructure. The JRC IET Powertrain Technology Transition Market Agent Model (PTT-MAM) is a comprehensive system dynamics based model used to analyse the interactions between policies and market development. In this study the authors employ the PTT-MAM to understand the relative impact of different approaches to EV uptake and then focus on the relationship of uptake with charging infrastructure. In the first part of this exercise, the authors establish the responsiveness of the model to actual policies being introduced in individual MSs, using the United Kingdom (UK) and Netherlands as case studies. In particular, there is a desire to apply successful policies in MSs with less mature electric fleets and see if a similar success could be achieved if these were applied. Therefore the authors replicate their policies across the whole EU. The authors then expand on previous work that focused on infrastructure provision to further understand the sensitivities that exist between this and EV uptake, in order to make policy recommendations.