A field experiment on workplace norms and electric vehicle charging etiquette

The increase in electric vehicles as a low‐carbon mobility option has driven interest from many workplaces and local governments to offer charging services for employees, customers and visitors. However, the lack of incentives to limit over‐consumption in shared charging resources has led to congest...

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Published in:Journal of industrial ecology 2022-02, Vol.26 (1), p.183-196
Main Authors: Asensio, Omar Isaac, Apablaza, Camila Z., Lawson, M. Cade, Walsh, Sarah Elizabeth
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Alternative fuel vehicles
behavior
Business etiquette
Customers
Data
Deterrence
Discontinuity
Electric vehicle charging
Electric vehicles
Etiquette
field experiments
Gold
Group norms
Incentives
industrial ecology
Local government
Mobility
Norms
Openness
Policies
Pricing policies
sustainability
Visitors
workplace charging
Workplaces
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Summary:The increase in electric vehicles as a low‐carbon mobility option has driven interest from many workplaces and local governments to offer charging services for employees, customers and visitors. However, the lack of incentives to limit over‐consumption in shared charging resources has led to congestion issues. In this paper, we use high‐frequency data to study two deterrence mechanisms implemented at one of the largest workplace charging programs in the United States. We study both price and nonprice interventions that encourage adoption of workplace norms and charging etiquette for resource sharing in charging stations. To study these mechanisms, we use a dynamic regression discontinuity design to separately identify treatment effects with digital platform data. Our findings provide new evidence that group norms can play an important role in driving behavioral compliance when setting EV access policies. We also find that workplace norms are complements to dynamic pricing policies. We discuss the implications of this data discovery for the effective management of common pool resources in the context of workplace charging and space‐constrained environments. This article met the requirements for a Gold‐Gold JIE data openness badge described at http://jie.click/badges.
ISSN:1088-1980
1530-9290
DOI:10.1111/jiec.13116