Carbon Policy and the Emissions Implications of Electric Vehicles

Will a carbon tax improve the welfare consequences of policies to promote electric vehicles? This paper examines when complementarity could exist between pricing and high vehicle adoption. We analyze electricity generation in recent years show that several regions, interacts with Under moderate prices like those effect today, additional vehicles will be more likely charged coal-fired than without pricing. confirm this finding using detailed dynamic model includes transportation power sectors. At much higher prices, reverses.