What is needed for battery electric vehicles to become socially cost competitive?

Economics of Transportation

Volumn 5, Issue , 2016, Pages 1-11

  Newbery, David ^a,b   Strbac, Goran ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electric vehicles; Social cost comparisons; Target battery cost

Indexed keywords

EID: 84962648421     PISSN: 22120122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecotra.2015.09.002     Document Type: Article

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