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Familiarity Facilitates Adoption: Evidence from Electric Vehicles

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  • Jonathan Libgober
  • Ruozi Song

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This paper shows that a non-price intervention which increased the prevalence of a new technology facilitated its further adoption. The BlueLA program put Electric Vehicles (EVs) for public use in many heavily trafficked areas, primarily (but not exclusively) aimed at low-to-middle income households. We show, using data on subsidies for these households and a difference-in differences strategy, that BlueLA is associated with a 33\% increase of new EV adoptions, justifying a substantial portion of public investment. While the program provides a substitute to car ownership, our findings are consistent with the hypothesis that increasing familiarity with EVs could facilitate adoption.

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  • Jonathan Libgober & Ruozi Song, 2022. "Familiarity Facilitates Adoption: Evidence from Electric Vehicles," Papers 2211.14634, arXiv.org.
    • Handle: RePEc:arx:papers:2211.14634
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