Policy incentives for the adoption of electric vehicles across countries

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 8056-8078

  Zhang, Xingping ^a   Xie, Jian ^a   Rao, Rao ^a   Liang, Yanni ^a  

^a NORTH CHINA ELECTRIC POWER UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Electric vehicles; Policy incentive; Policy mechanism; Relationship

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; ELECTRIC VEHICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; INCENTIVE; POLICY ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABILITY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84920716442     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su6118056     Document Type: Article

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