Data on policy support for electric vehicles

This dataset contains detailed, machine-readable data on support policies for electric vehicle adoption from the years 2000-2024 for Germany, Greece, Ireland, and France. It contains information on the following policy instruments:

Subsidies

Tax incentives (rebates, exemptions)

Fee decreases or exemptions

Feebates or bonus/malus schemes

Soft loans

Tenders with additional financial support

Incentives to promote user behavioral change

Technology standards

The work was performed by Silvia Weko, Puru Malhotra, Aksornchan Chaianong, Ioannis Milioritsas, Dogukan Günkördü, Franziska Bold, and Johan Lilliestam, during 2024-2025. The work was led by Silvia Weko and data were cleaned by Puru Malhotra and Silvia Weko. Data were gathered by PM, IM, DG, FB, and SW. AC and JL contributed to the research structure and process. 

The data is published with CC BY-SA 4.0. The dataset should be cited as:

Weko, S., Malhotra, P., Bold, F., Chaianong, A., Günkördü, D., Milioritsas, I., and Lilliestam, J. (2025): Data on policy support for electric vehicles (Version 0, February 2025). Sustainability Transition Policy Group, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.15476330.

The authors would like to thank the German Federal Government, the German State Governments, and the Joint Science Conference (GWK) for their funding and support as part of the NFDI4Energy consortium. The work was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) – 501865131 within the German National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI, www.nfdi.de). Silvia Weko would also like to thank the Office for Equal Opportunities for Women in Science and the Arts at the School of Business, Economics, and Law at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg.