Assessing the Charging Needs of Multi-EV Households in California

Electric vehicles are a key piece of California’s plans to achieve a zero-carbon transportation system. Today, electric vehicles make up nearly 10% of new vehicle sales in California and 2% nationwide. While most research of electric vehicle adoption has focused on the first vehicle a household buys, most households in California own two or more vehicles, and these vehicles must be electrified too. Moreover, an increasing share of electric vehicle sales are going to households that already have one or two electric vehicles, and 9% of households in the most recent phase of the UC Davis eVMT survey have multiple electric vehicles. There is a great deal of uncertainty around the needs and behavior of multi-EV households but charging multiple vehicles is likely to be challenging for many more households than charging a single vehicle is. This project will determine the market penetration and charging infrastructure needs of multi-EV households by region and community in California from 2022 to 2040, with a particular focus on how access to charging will affect the rate at which households acquire additional EVs and on the difficulties of expanding EV ownership in Disadvantaged Communities in California.

• Record URL:
  https://ncst.ucdavis.edu/project/assessing-charging-needs-multi-ev-households-california

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $ 118535
• Contract Numbers:

  DOT 69A3551747114

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  National Center for Sustainable Transportation

  University of California, Davis
  Davis, CA  United States 
• Managing Organizations:

  National Center for Sustainable Transportation

  University of California, Davis
  Davis, CA  United States 

  University of California, Davis

  1 Shields Ave
  Davis, California  United States  95616
• Project Managers:

  Iacobucci, Lauren

• Performing Organizations:

  National Center for Sustainable Transportation

  University of California, Davis
  Davis, CA  United States 

  University of California, Davis

  1 Shields Ave
  Davis, California  United States  95616
• Principal Investigators:

  Tal, Gil

• Start Date: 20221201
• Expected Completion Date: 20240331
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automobile ownership; Electric automobiles; Electric vehicle charging; Households; Infrastructure; Market penetration
• Geographic Terms: California
• Subject Areas: Energy; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01863685
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: National Center for Sustainable Transportation
• Contract Numbers: DOT 69A3551747114
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Nov 15 2022 7:43PM