Compilation: CVRP Emission Impacts and Cost-Effectiveness
California's Clean Vehicle Rebate Project (CVRP) has rebated over 500,000 electric vehicles (EVs) since its inception in 2010. Center for Sustainable Energy, CVRP’s administrator, has conducted ongoing research into the emissions impact and cost-effectiveness of these rebates. Analysis of 2021 purchases estimates EVs are reducing an average of 23 tons of greenhouse gas emissions over the first 100,000 miles of driving.
Links to publications, presentations and videos include the following (listed in reverse chronological order (as of November 2023), with key sources highlighted in bold):
Publications
- N. Pallonetti, B.D.H. Williams, B. Sa (2023, Sept.), CVRP Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions and Cost-Effectiveness Update: 2021 Purchases/Leases, Program Reports, Clean Vehicle Rebate Project.
- N. Pallonetti and B.D.H. Williams (2023, Feb.), CVRP Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions and Cost-Effectiveness: 2020 Purchases/Leases, Program Reports, Clean Vehicle Rebate Project.
- N. Pallonetti and B.D.H. Williams (2022, Nov.), Evaluating the Cost-Effectiveness of Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions Associated with California’s Statewide Electric Vehicle Rebate Program in 2020, International Energy Program Evaluation Conference (IEPEC) (2nd reschedule due to COVID-19), San Diego. Slides.
- N. Pallonetti and B.D.H. Williams (2022, Jan.), Evaluating the Cost-Effectiveness of Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions Associated with Statewide Electric Vehicle Rebate Programs in California and Massachusetts in 2019, Prepared for the International Energy Program Evaluation Conference (IEPEC) (1st reschedule due to COVID-19).
- N. Pallonetti and B.D.H. Williams (2021, Jul.), Refining Estimates of Fuel-Cycle Greenhouse-Gas Emission Reductions Associated with California’s Clean Vehicle Rebate Project with Program Data and Other Case-Specific Inputs, Energies, 14(15).
- N. Pallonetti & B.D.H. Williams (2019, July). “Preliminary Estimation of Emission Reductions Associated with California’s Clean Vehicle Rebate Project (CVRP).” Prepared for Assessment of CARB’s Zero-Emission Vehicle Programs Per Senate Bill 498, July 2020.
- N. Pallonetti and B.D. Williams (2019, May), “Preliminary Estimation of Emission Reductions Associated with California’s Clean Vehicle Rebate Project (CVRP),” Appendix B in Assembly Bill 615 Report to the Legislature on the Impact of the Clean Vehicle Rebate Project on California’s Zero-Emission Vehicle Market, California Air Resources Board.
- N. Pallonetti B.D. Williams (2019, Jan.), Exploratory Estimation of Greenhouse-Gas Emission Reductions Associated with California’s Clean Vehicle Rebate Project, proceedings of the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C. Slides.
Presentations and Videos
- Evaluating the Cost-Effectiveness of Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions Associated with California’s Statewide Electric Vehicle Rebate Program in 2020 (2022, Nov.)
- Video: “Cost-Effectiveness of Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions Associated with California’s Clean Vehicle Rebate Project in 2019 (and 2020),” time 2:01-2:31. Slides. (2022, Feb.)
- Exploratory Estimation of Greenhouse-Gas Emission Reductions from California’s Clean Vehicle Rebate Project (2019, Jan.)
- California’s Electric Vehicle Rebates: Exploring Impact (2017, Oct.)
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