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Equilibrium Effects in Complementary Markets: Electric Vehicle Adoption and Electricity Pricing

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  • Pascal Heid
  • Kevin Remmy

  • Mathias Reynaert

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Electric vehicles shift passenger transport from oil to electricity, linking vehicle adoption to hourly power-market conditions. We develop and estimate a joint equilib rium model of German vehicle demand and electricity supply in which driver-specific charging decisions map travel profiles and electricity prices into EV operating costs and load. A 10% EV stock raises wholesale prices by 3.3%, creating sizable cost spillovers on non-EV electricity users, but reduces EV adoption by less than 1%. Time-varying tariffs lower charging costs and shift load to cheaper hours; in equilibrium, EV adop tion offsets much of the system-cost relief while redirecting generator profits toward renewables.

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  • Pascal Heid & Kevin Remmy & Mathias Reynaert, 2024. "Equilibrium Effects in Complementary Markets: Electric Vehicle Adoption and Electricity Pricing," CRC TR 224 Discussion Paper Series crctr224_2024_615v2, University of Bonn and University of Mannheim, Germany, revised Jun 2026.
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    • L5 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy
    • L6 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Manufacturing
    • L9 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Transportation and Utilities
    • Q4 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy
    • Q5 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics

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