An experimental analysis of consumer preferences towards public charging infrastructure

Brückmann, Gracia; Bernauer, Thomas (2023). An experimental analysis of consumer preferences towards public charging infrastructure. Transportation research Part D. Transport and environment, 116, p. 103626. Elsevier 10.1016/j.trd.2023.103626

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As the share of battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) in car fleets increases, more and more car holders will need to charge their electric vehicles at public facilities. Designing public charging infrastructure so as to make it attractive to current and future BEV holders thus becomes essential. We implemented a choice experiment with a large sample of current BEV (N = 950) and non-BEV (N = 1,881) holders to examine the relevance of several design features that are widely presumed to be important in this regard: waiting (queueing) time, charging time, price, energy source, and amenities. Mean queueing time turns out to be most relevant, and car holders are also willing to pay for limiting or avoiding (uncertain) queueing times. The main implications for commercial and public charging infrastructure providers are that they should seek to provide fast charging, real-time observability of charger occupancy, and the opportunity to reserve chargers.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

03 Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Institute of Political Science
10 Strategic Research Centers > Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research (OCCR)

UniBE Contributor:

Brückmann, Gracia

Subjects:

300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 320 Political science
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 330 Economics
600 Technology

ISSN:

1361-9209

Publisher:

Elsevier

Funders:

[UNSPECIFIED] Swiss Federal Office of Energy ; [UNSPECIFIED] ETH Zurich Institute of Science Technology and Policy

Language:

English

Submitter:

Gracia Brückmann

Date Deposited:

01 Jun 2023 07:08

Last Modified:

04 Jun 2023 02:27

Publisher DOI:

10.1016/j.trd.2023.103626

Uncontrolled Keywords:

Battery electric vehiclesCharging infrastructureChoice experimentValue of timeWillingness to payRenewable energy

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/183074

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/183074

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