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An Assessment of Electric Vehicle Adoption and Potential Growth under Evolving Techno-policy Scenarios

Principal Investigator Ziyi Dai
Georgia Institute of Technology

This study aims to conduct a time-series to explore how electric vehicle (EV) adoption has increased over time and to predict how future EV adoption will continue to expand in the future.

Project Status

Complete

An Assessment of EV Adoption and Potential Growth under Evolving Techno-policy Scenarios

Research Product Type

Dissertation / Thesis

This study explores how has EV adoption increased over the past years and predicts how will the EV market continue to expand and penetrate in the future years using a case study with regional granular travel survey data.

Cost of Plug-in Electric Vehicle Ownership: How the cost of ownership impacts the choice between conventional and plug-in electric vehicles

Principal Investigator Debapriya Chakraborty, Ph.D.
University of California, Davis

This project will study the factors influencing the total cost of ownership and operation of Plug-In Electric Vehicles and how policies like CAFE and fuel/electricity price trends impact the comparative costs of internal combustion engines and plug-in electric vehicles.

Project Status

Complete

Cost of Plug-in Electric Vehicle Ownership: The Cost of Transitioning to Five Million Plug-In Vehicles in California

Research Product Type

Research Report

This report presents a detailed analysis of vehicle manufacturing costs and market-level TCO accounting for technology uncertainties, behavioral heterogeneity, and key decision parameters of automakers. Using the estimates of the vehicle manufacturing costs, the cost of electrification of California’s LDV fleet is estimated to achieve the state’s net-zero emission goal by 2045.

Cost of Vehicle Ownership: Cost Parity Between Plug-in Electric Vehicles and Conventional Vehicles Is at Least a Decade Away

Research Product Type

Policy Brief

This policy brief summarizes findings from recent research estimated PEVs’ total cost of ownership for the period of 2020–2030, their cost-competitiveness with conventional vehicles, and consequently the cost of electrification of California’s fleet of more than 30 million light-duty vehicles.

Dataset: Total Cost of Ownership of Plug-in Electric Vehicles Calculations Data sheet

Research Product Type

Data

This data from the Cost of Plug-In EV Ownership project was collected from academic research, industry technical reports, and vehicle technology data maintained by the EPA and the Alternative Fuel Data Center. The household-level data used for market segmentation is obtained from the 2019 California Vehicle Survey hosted by NREL.

Hydrogen Fuel Cells for Electric Cars and Trucks

This talk examined the current status of hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle commercialization and included discussion of fuel cell applications for transportation, manufacturing cost trends, cost and availability of hydrogen refueling infrastructure, the environmental impacts of hydrogen production, and more.

Low Carbon Scenario Analysis of a Hydrogen-Based Energy Transition for On-Road Transportation in California

Research Product Type

Associated Publication

This study follows a deterministic modeling approach to project two scenarios of FCEV adoption and the resulting hydrogen demand (low and high) up to 2050 in California, using a transportation transition model. The study then estimates the number of hydrogen production and refueling facilities required to meet demand.

Social Life Cycle Analysis of Zero Emission Heavy-duty Trucks

Principal Investigator Jiachen Zhang, Ph.D.
University of Southern California

Building on their previous research on environmental life cycle assessment (LCA) for heavy-duty trucks, the researchers will conduct a social LCA analysis to assess the social impacts of battery-electric and fuel cell trucks.

Project Status

In Progress

Technology, Sustainability, and Marketing of Battery Electric and Hydrogen Fuel Cell Medium-Duty and Heavy-Duty Trucks and Buses in 2020-2040

Research Product Type

Research Report

This study projected the introduction of battery-electric and fuel cell technologies into the medium-duty and heavy-duty vehicle markets and identified which markets will be most suitable for each of technologies and the factors which will be most critical to their successful introduction.