WORKING PAPER - What influences uptake of private battery electric cars in cities? A

ORG At the district level in 2021, private BEV shares ranged from 7% in the district Mühlhausen in the north of the city to nearly 20% in the district Nord, which is situated north of the city center, revealing disparities in uptake (Figure 3). [...] Eight of the 23 districts, mostly located in the center and south of the city, were above the city-wide private BEV share of 14% in 2021. [...] The BEV registration shares in four districts were the same as the city-wide share of 14% and 11 were under the city-wide share, typically located in the northern part of the city. [...] The neighborhoods with the highest share of private BEV registrations in 2021 were Tränke in the southern district of Degerloch with 66%, Pragstraße (Bad Cannstatt district in the north-east) with 50%, and Rotenberg (Untertürkheim district in the west) with 40%. [...] The simple assumption of the linear relationship has great interpretability; the estimated coefficient for each independent variable can be interpreted as the percentage change of the new private BEV registration share associated with a 1-unit change in the independent variable, when the other independent variables are kept unchanged.