Financing Models of Campus Charging Infrastructures For Electric Vehicles

Type of Paper: 
Non-thesis Graduate Student Research
Institution: 
University of California, Berkeley
Course Name: 
Sustainability in Action: Cal Climate Action
Disciplines: 
Sustainability Studies and Science
Admin Depts: 
Energy Management
Admin Depts: 
Transportation/Parking
Keywords: 
Climate
Keywords: 
Energy
Keywords: 
Financing
Keywords: 
Transportation
Date: 
May, 2010

California is always a leader in mitigating and reducing its greenhouse gas emissions in coordination with our climate change mitigation policies as outlined in AB32. UC Berkeley, one of the most active supporters for California’s environmental goal, should carry on our environmental leadership by continuing to address climate change mitigation in automobile exhaust. The 2007 initial work of CalCAP had a greenhouse gas emissions reduction target that reduce GHG emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2014. This goal is six years earlier than State of California and the UC Policy on Sustainability Practices requires. 1This paper addresses the transportation sector GHG emission by promoting an alternative transportation system, namely electric vehicle. However, no one wants to buy electric vehicles unless there are ubiquitous charging infrastructures; no one would want to invest on installing public charging stations unless there are electric vehicles running on the street. The most crucial issue many potential customers are worried about before purchasing an electric vehicle is where they can charge it up, thus it becomes a “chicken and egg” problem.

First Author

Yan
Zhu

Contact Person

Yan
Zhu