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Clintona , Daniel C. Steinbergb  \naMIT Energy Initiative (MITEI), Massachusetts Institute of Technology  \nCambridge, MA 02139, United States  \nb National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)  \n15013 Denver West Parkway; Golden, CO 80401, United States  \nAbstract  \nTo overcome adoption barriers and promote battery electric vehicles (BEVs) as an energy e􀀎cient consumer transportation option, a number of states o􀀋er subsidies to consumers for BEVs. We use a national data set of vehicle registrations and state-level 􀀌nancial incentives to assess the impact of vehicle purchase subsidies on adoption using both di􀀋erence-indi􀀋erences and synthetic controls methods. We 􀀌nd that incentives o􀀋ered as direct purchase rebates generate increased levels of new BEV registrations at a rate of approximately 8 percent per thousand dollars of incentive o􀀋ered. Between 2011 and 2015, vehicle rebate incentives are associated with an increase in overall BEV registrations of approximately 11 percent. Our 􀀌ndings indicate incentives o􀀋ered as state income tax credits do not have a statistically signi􀀌cant e􀀋ect on BEV adoptions, though we caution this may be a result of limited temporal variation in BEV incentives across our sample. Responses to rebate incentives do not di􀀋er signi􀀌cantly by the make of the vehicle purchased (i.e., Tesla and non-Tesla vehicles) . We combine our results with recent assessments of marginal environmental costs of electric vehicle charging and measure net welfare e􀀋ects of BEV subsidy programs. Our analysis indicates these programs are not welfare-improving if only considering bene􀀌ts associated with avoided emissions. Additional bene􀀌ts associated with long-term market growth, production cost savings, network externalities, or accelerated innovation could substantially impact the net welfare outcomes.  \nKeywords: Electric vehicles, tax incentives, rebates, technology adoption JEL classi􀀌cation: Q55; L98; O38; H71  \n? Corresponding author: B. Clinton, [bclinton@mit.edu](bclinton@mit.edu. This work was)[. This work was](bclinton@mit.edu. This work was) authored in part by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, operated by Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under Contract No. DE-AC36-08GO28308 . Funding provided by the U.S. Department of Energy O􀀎ce of Energy E􀀎ciency and Renewable Energy. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of the DOE or the U.S. Government. This work was originally submitted on 1/28/2016 . Austin Brown, Daniel Ka􀀎ne, Jonathan Hughes, Laura Vimmerstedt, Carolyn Davidson, and seminar participants at the 2016 AERE summer conference, Bates College, Colorado School of Mines, Department of Energy, and University of Colorado Boulder provided valuable feedback.  \n1. Introduction  \nBattery electric vehicles (BEVs) represent a frontier of commercially-produced vehicle technology and are often promoted as an important component of e􀀋orts to reduce transportation-sector reliance on fossil fuels. Despite their advertised bene􀀌ts, BEVs face barriers to adoption including high upfront costs relative to conventional vehicles and consumer apprehension about reliability, range, and unfamiliar technology (Hidrue et al. , 2011; Egbue and Long, 2012) . Each of these barriers arises from the fact that BEVs are a significant departure from traditional internal combustion engine technology. To overcome these barriers and promote adoption of alternative fuels vehicles, the Federal government and some entities at the state and local levels in the United States subsidize consum","cbCaijuw2EoApJzh","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijuw2EoApJzh","pdf",4745221,48,"English","# Abstract\n# Keywords\n# 1. 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