Equity in the Path to Full Light-Duty Vehicle Electrification

As California policy shifts towards decarbonizing transportation, it’s clear there will be full light-duty vehicle electrification in the coming decades. To ensure vulnerable groups are not left behind, this dissertation will develop complete population tools and models to estimate vehicle electrification burden, first-time electric vehicle adoption (EV) rates, and additional EV adoption rates in different types of households in California. Thus far, this dissertation has developed models for the latter two goals, utilizing surveys of EV adopters to estimate rates of first-time adoption and to estimate differences between those who purchase one EV from those who purchase multiple EVs. During the fellowship period, a complete population tool, i.e. a synthetic population, will be developed for the purpose of estimating the difficulty in electrifying vehicles in different types of households in California. Synthetic populations are helpful in EV equity analyses because they allow researchers to examine multiple aspects of households and populations instead of a few aggregate statistics. This dissertation will develop a representative synthetic population of California including household and vehicle variables crucial to modeling EV adoption and equity. This tool will be used to estimate first-time adoption rates, identify groups likely to adopt multiple EVs, and detect groups that will find it difficult to adopt EVs at all. Finally, this work will define and develop a framework to determine vehicle electrification burden, which broadly will estimate the difficulty households face in acquiring, charging, and owning EVs.

• Record URL:
  https://ncst.ucdavis.edu/project/equity-path-full-light-duty-vehicle-electrification

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $20000
• Contract Numbers:

  DOT 69A3552348319

  DOT 69A3552344814

• 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 

  University of California, Davis

  1 Shields Ave
  Davis, California  United States  95616
• 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:

  Cliff, Sydney

• 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:

  Ramadoss, Trisha

  Tal, Gil

• Start Date: 20250101
• Expected Completion Date: 20251231
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automobile ownership; Electric vehicles; Equity; Households; Policy; Surveys
• Geographic Terms: California
• Subject Areas: Energy; Highways; Policy; Society; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01930276
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: National Center for Sustainable Transportation
• Contract Numbers: DOT 69A3552348319, DOT 69A3552344814
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Sep 15 2024 10:35PM