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Do EV Subsidies Hurt Vehicle Emission Goals?

A study by Concordia University economics professor Ian Irvine shows that subsidizing electric vehicles (EVs) in the North American context will not reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the short-term, and may even increase them at a cost to taxpayers.

Recently published in Canadian Public Policy, Irvine’s study compared the incentives for producing EVs that are found in the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards, North America’s fuel-efficiency regulations, with new EV subsidy policies in Ontario, Quebec, and British Columbia.

He found that, while the subsidies encourage the production of more EVs, they undermine the efficiency requirements of existing incentives for conventional vehicles. This results in a zero or negative near-term GHG benefit, he says.

“Sometimes you have more than one policy aimed at a particular goal, and usually those policies are complementary,” Irvine says. “But in this case, they work at cross purposes.”

In 2012, CAFE was amended to require manufacturers to continuously reduce the average carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions of their fleets by 5% a year between 2017 and 2025.

Typically, the amount of CO2 each vehicle is allowed to emit is related to its footprint, defined as the area between its wheels. However, Irvine says, because the annual GHG reduction targets are organized on an average fleet-wide basis, manufacturers are allowed flexibility in how they distribute the annual efficiency improvements within and across different vehicle categories.

Under CAFE’s rules, Irvine says that an electric car is considered to have a zero emissions footprint. As an incentive designed to stimulate investment in EVs, a manufacturer that produces an EV is given a carbon credit that can be sold to another manufacturer, applied to a future year, or applied to other vehicles in the manufacturer’s fleet.

As a further incentive, the manufacturer is granted a bonus carbon credit over and above the equivalent of CO2 that the sale of the EV removes from the atmosphere. For EVs, this bonus credit, or multiplier, started at 2.5 in 2016 and declines to 1.5 in 2025.

Irvine says that if a vehicle with a footprint of 50 square feet is allowed to emit 150 grams of CO2/kilometer, then a manufacturer that sold an EV with the same footprint in 2016 is given an emission credit of 375 grams of CO2/kilometer.

“These carbon credit offsets can be used by a manufacturer to moderate the GHG-related efficiency improvements in the more conventional vehicles that they sell,” Irvine says. “So, putting more EVs on the road with subsidies does not translate into fewer GHG emissions.”

All told, Irvine sees the prime lesson of his study to be caution.

To contact the author of this article, email david.wagman@ieeeglobalspec.com


Do EV Subsidies Hurt Vehicle Emission Goals?

Author : Internet   From : globalspec   Release times : 2018.03.17   Views : 1421

A study by Concordia University economics professor Ian Irvine shows that subsidizing electric vehicles (EVs) in the North American context will not reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the short-term, and may even increase them at a cost to taxpayers.

Recently published in Canadian Public Policy, Irvine’s study compared the incentives for producing EVs that are found in the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards, North America’s fuel-efficiency regulations, with new EV subsidy policies in Ontario, Quebec, and British Columbia.

He found that, while the subsidies encourage the production of more EVs, they undermine the efficiency requirements of existing incentives for conventional vehicles. This results in a zero or negative near-term GHG benefit, he says.

“Sometimes you have more than one policy aimed at a particular goal, and usually those policies are complementary,” Irvine says. “But in this case, they work at cross purposes.”

In 2012, CAFE was amended to require manufacturers to continuously reduce the average carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions of their fleets by 5% a year between 2017 and 2025.

Typically, the amount of CO2 each vehicle is allowed to emit is related to its footprint, defined as the area between its wheels. However, Irvine says, because the annual GHG reduction targets are organized on an average fleet-wide basis, manufacturers are allowed flexibility in how they distribute the annual efficiency improvements within and across different vehicle categories.

Under CAFE’s rules, Irvine says that an electric car is considered to have a zero emissions footprint. As an incentive designed to stimulate investment in EVs, a manufacturer that produces an EV is given a carbon credit that can be sold to another manufacturer, applied to a future year, or applied to other vehicles in the manufacturer’s fleet.

As a further incentive, the manufacturer is granted a bonus carbon credit over and above the equivalent of CO2 that the sale of the EV removes from the atmosphere. For EVs, this bonus credit, or multiplier, started at 2.5 in 2016 and declines to 1.5 in 2025.

Irvine says that if a vehicle with a footprint of 50 square feet is allowed to emit 150 grams of CO2/kilometer, then a manufacturer that sold an EV with the same footprint in 2016 is given an emission credit of 375 grams of CO2/kilometer.

“These carbon credit offsets can be used by a manufacturer to moderate the GHG-related efficiency improvements in the more conventional vehicles that they sell,” Irvine says. “So, putting more EVs on the road with subsidies does not translate into fewer GHG emissions.”

All told, Irvine sees the prime lesson of his study to be caution.

To contact the author of this article, email david.wagman@ieeeglobalspec.com


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