A hybrid car drives several kilometres solely on electricity. The battery is charged from the energy produced by the combustion engine during driving or while braking. Switching between the two engines occurs automatically without the driver’s intervention. The combination allows the electric motor and batteries to help the conventional engine operate more efficiently, reducing fuel use. It has both an internal combustion engine and an electric engine. Hybrid vehicle, a vehicle with batteries but without a plug. When the batteries are empty, the car will automatically switch to the internal combustion engine. The car can drive several tens of kilometres solely on electricity. Plug-in hybrid vehicle, a vehicle with an internal combustion engine (petrol or diesel) and batteries that can also be charged from a regular electric socket. Powered by electricity, it has a battery which can be recharged from a regular electric socket. To stimulate the electric vehicle market, we recommend a pricing policy that affects the operating costs and other incentives along with an effective up-front price incentive scheme.īattery electric vehicle, a vehicle set in motion by an electric motor. This is also the first discrete choice experiment on electric vehicles conducted in Eastern Europe. The novelty of the paper lies in presenting a scenario with the slow-mode and availability of several levels of fast-mode charging stations and examination of the extent to which the heterogeneity of consumer preferences is driven by place of residence (urban, suburban, rural), intention to buy a new versus a used car, and the annual mileage. We quantify the marginal willingness to pay for increasing the driving range, reductions in charging time, the availability of fast-mode charging stations, and the provision of policy incentives.

We find that electric vehicles are significantly less preferred than conventional cars, even under a public programme that would enable slow-mode charging in places where respondents usually park. We use a discrete choice experiment to estimate the willingness to pay of a representative sample of consumers intending to buy a car in Poland. To identify effective support measures, this paper examines the preferences of Polish consumers for three types of electric vehicles: battery, hybrid, and plug-in hybrid vehicles.

In Poland, there were only 475 battery electric vehicles and 514 plug-in electric vehicles registered in 2017. However, as in other Eastern European countries, the market penetration stays very low. Poland aims at stimulating the market to reach a target of 50,000 plug-in and battery electric vehicles by 2020.

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