Demand for electric vehicles and chargers in Norway

We use a panel vector autoregressive (pVAR) model to estimate a possible interrelationship among the two dependent variable, the deployment of chargers for electric vehicles and the diffusion of electric vehicles in Norway. Using a detailed dataset on the municipality-level, we propose a model to analyse whether there exist simultaneous and dynamic interactions between the share of electric vehicles and the presence of chargers in a regional manner. We find that there is a weak relationship between the two variables, but also that the results are weak and the obtained results are not perfectly stable. Additional data – either over time (longer data series or e.g. monthly data) or higher geographical granularity may increase the significance of the model used herein.