We quantify the marginal willingness to pay for increasing the driving range, reductions in charging time, the availability of fast-mode charging stations, and the provision of policy incentives. We find that electric vehicles are significantly less preferred than conventional cars, even under a public programme that would enable slow-mode charging in places where respondents usually park. We use a discrete choice experiment to estimate the willingness to pay of a representative sample of consumers intending to buy a car in Poland. To identify effective support measures, this paper examines the preferences of Polish consumers for three types of electric vehicles: battery, hybrid, and plug-in hybrid vehicles.
In Poland, there were only 475 battery electric vehicles and 514 plug-in electric vehicles registered in 2017. However, as in other Eastern European countries, the market penetration stays very low.
Poland aims at stimulating the market to reach a target of 50,000 plug-in and battery electric vehicles by 2020.
