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Lookup NU author(s): Professor Oliver Heidrich, Dr Graeme Hill, Dr Myriam Neaimeh, Dr Yvonne Chase, Professor Phil BlytheORCiD, Professor Richard DawsonORCiD
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© 2017. Many cities publish climate change mitigation strategies and other policy measures to support the wide spread uptake of Electric Vehicles (EVs). This paper investigates the effectiveness of these strategies and the provision of infrastructures in 30 UK cities, with a specific emphasis on those strategies that are within the remit of cities and local authorities. The climate mitigation strategies and supporting documents were obtained from 30 UK cities recommended by the Urban Audit Methodology. We show that 13 cities mention EVs in their strategies. Analysing EV registrations and the EV infrastructures that is provided by cities we found that there is no statistical difference in the number of charging points or EVs between the cities that have EVs as part of their climate change mitigation strategy and those that do not. It was shown that EV uptake was more generally associated with other factors (such as local vehicle population or income) rather than any documented EV/climate mitigation strategy. We demonstrate that local strategies are failing in achieving the much needed step change and make suggestions how to improve EV uptake as an even more radical thinking and policies may become necessary to achieve carbon reduction targets.
Author(s): Heidrich O, Hill GA, Neaimeh M, Huebner Y, Blythe PT, Dawson RJ
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Technological Forecasting and Social Change
Year: 2017
Volume: 123
Pages: 17-23
Print publication date: 01/10/2017
Online publication date: 09/06/2017
Acceptance date: 19/05/2017
Date deposited: 28/09/2017
ISSN (print): 0040-1625
ISSN (electronic): 1873-5509
Publisher: Elsevier Inc.
URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2017.05.026
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2017.05.026
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