Designing policies to make cars greener

ST Anderson, JM Sallee - Annual Review of Resource …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
We review what is known about the economic efficiency of fuel taxes relative to efficiency
standards aimed at mitigating environmental externalities from cars. We present a simplified …

Decarbonizing US passenger vehicle transport under electrification and automation uncertainty has a travel budget

AF Alarfaj, WM Griffin, C Samaras - Environmental Research …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The transportation sector is at the beginning of a transition represented by electrification,
shared mobility, and automation, which could lead to either increases or decreases in total …

Integrating plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) into household fleets-factors influencing miles traveled by PEV owners in California

D Chakraborty, S Hardman, G Tal - Travel Behaviour and Society, 2022 - Elsevier
Household vehicle miles traveled (VMT) has traditionally been studied in the context of
gasoline vehicles. In this study, we analyze VMT of Plug-in Electric Vehicles (PEVs) to …

[HTML][HTML] Vulnerability to fuel price increases in the UK: A household level analysis

G Mattioli, Z Wadud, K Lucas - Transportation Research Part A: Policy and …, 2018 - Elsevier
In highly motorised countries, some sectors of the population own and use cars despite
struggling to afford their running costs, and so may be particularly vulnerable to motor fuel …

Quantifying electric vehicle mileage in the United States

L Zhao, ER Ottinger, AHC Yip, JP Helveston - Joule, 2023 - cell.com
We deliver comprehensive, high-resolution estimates of annual vehicle miles traveled (VMT)
in the United States for battery electric vehicles (BEVs), plug-in hybrid electric vehicles …

Everything is just a click away. Online shopping efficiency and consumption levels in three consumption domains

V Frick, E Matthies - Sustainable Production and Consumption, 2020 - Elsevier
Online shopping makes consumption increasingly easy. It may lead to more sufficiency-
oriented goods and services being bought (eg second-hand clothing), but also comes with …

The rebound effect in road transport: A meta-analysis of empirical studies

A Dimitropoulos, W Oueslati, C Sintek - Energy Economics, 2018 - Elsevier
The rebound effect is the phenomenon underlying the disproportionality between energy
efficiency improvements and observed energy savings. In road transport, the effect reveals …

Do vehicle efficiency improvements lead to energy savings? The rebound effect in Great Britain

M Craglia, J Cullen - Energy Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
Fuel efficiency improvements in vehicles reduce the cost of travel, which could stimulate
drivers to travel further limiting energy savings. Estimates of this effect, known as the …

[HTML][HTML] Who bears the energy cost? Local income deprivation and the household energy efficiency gap

K Chaudhuri, G Huaccha - Energy Economics, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent years, economists and policymakers have increasingly focused their attention on
improving the energy efficiency of households due to its ability to simultaneously meet …

Alternative fuel vehicle adoption increases fleet gasoline consumption and greenhouse gas emissions under United States corporate average fuel economy policy …

A Jenn, IML Azevedo, JJ Michalek - Environmental science & …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The United States Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards and Greenhouse
Gas (GHG) Emission standards are designed to reduce petroleum consumption and GHG …