Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/27565 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
ZEW Discussion Papers No. 08-088
Publisher: 
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW), Mannheim
Abstract: 
In this paper we analyze the impact of service station availability on the demand for alternative-fuel vehicles and the consumers' willingness to pay for an enlarged fueling infrastructure. We examine a stated preferences choice experiment conducted as a CAPI survey with about 600 interviews of potential car buyers in Germany and estimate the coefficients of a discrete choice model. We simulate different scenarios and analyze how individual choice probabilities for alternative fuel-types are changing with a modified fueling infrastructure. In our scenarios hybrids, LPG/CNG and hydrogen will be real alternatives to the existing conventional technologies. However, biofuels and electric power trains are well behind even in a situation where their infrastructure is equally developed. Moreover, on the basis of our model we compute what increases in fixed or variable costs consumers of different income groups are willing to accept for an increasing station density.
Subjects: 
Fueling Infrastructure
Alternative Fuels
Automobile Market
Stated Preferences
Discrete Choice
Network Effects
JEL: 
R41
L62
C51
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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