Ulrich Wagner

University of Mannheim
No Place Like Home: Charging Infrastructure and the Environmental Advantage of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles
Monday, December 2, 2024 – 05:15 – 06:30 PM (CET)
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Seminar Abstract
The environmental impact of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) depends in major ways on whether drivers use fossil fuels or electricity. Leveraging quasi-experimental variation in access to home charging stations in a sample of 836 PHEV company cars, we estimate that this technology more than quadruples electric utilization, thereby reducing CO2 emissions by 38%. Financially, home charging stations -which are fully subsidized by the company- break even after six to eight years.
Speaker Bio
Ulrich J. Wagner is a Professor of Quantitative Economics at the University of Mannheim. His research interests are in environmental economics, industrial organization and public economics. He has published his work in leading peer-reviewed academic journals, including the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Public Economics, and the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.
Ulrich Wagner is an editorial board member of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. He has served as co-editor of the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists and of Economics: the E-Journal. In 2015 he was awarded the 2015 Erik Kempe Award in Environmental and Resource Economics. His research projects are funded by the European Research Council and the German Science Foundation, among others.
He received his doctoral degree in 2006 from Yale University and subsequently worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Earth Institute at Columbia University. Before joining the University of Mannheim in 2015, he worked as an Associate Professor of Economics at Universidad Carlos III in Madrid.
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