Promoting the uptake of battery electric vehicles : why and how should governments invest in the transition? /

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2025

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V, Anilan,

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This thesis examines how governments can accelerate the adoption of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) through effective, efficient, and equitable policy interventions. It integrates global evidence, expert insights from a Delphi study, and a behavioural choice–diffusion model (VPDM) to simulate BEV uptake under six policy scenarios. A benefit–cost analysis incorporates sensitivity, risk, and distributional analysis, as well as non-monetary qualitative inputs. A political economy analysis assesses how macro-socioeconomic factors influence policy feasibility and proposes a diagnostic tool to evaluate country-specific BEV readiness, bridging the gap between theoretical effectiveness and practical implementation. Finally, the study offers recommendations grounded in the Australian context, with relevance for similarly situated nations.

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University of South Australia. UniSA Business.
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Thesis (PhD(Applied Economics))--University of South Australia, 2025.

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Copyright 2025 Anilan V.

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1 ethesis (xvi, 314 pages) :
illustrations (some colour), charted (chiefly colour)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-314)

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