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Credits and Rebates Play a Key Role in Building Consumer Market for Cleaner Electric Vehicles

UCD-ITS-RR-17-67

Journal Article

Suggested Citation:
Tal, Gil and Austin Brown (2017) Credits and Rebates Play a Key Role in Building Consumer Market for Cleaner Electric Vehicles. Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis, Journal Article UCD-ITS-RR-17-67

The transportation world is moving towards an electric future. More EVs are available than ever before. Leading global automakers are pledging to transition to cleaner electric fleets. Entire countries are planning to phase out fossil-fuel vehicles, thereby lowering harmful emissions that are detrimental to human health.
The United States is currently a leader in EV technology and innovation, thanks in part to the federal tax credit that has helped bridge the gap in cost between plug-in vehicles and their conventional gas-powered counterparts. Our research shows that these incentives play a key role in building the EV market—by creating policy certainty for automakers as well as encouraging the purchase of EVs.