Does Subsidizing E-Bikes Reduce Carbon Emissions? A Chat With Anders Anderson
Episode 156 of the Tax Chats podcast, hosted by Dyreng and Hoopes, titled "Does Subsidizing E-Bikes Reduce Carbon Emissions? A Chat With Anders Anderson" was published on August 1, 2025 and runs 27 minutes.
August 1, 2025 ·27m · Tax Chats
Summary
Send a text In this episode, Jeff and Scott talk with Anders Anderson, a finance professor at the Stockholm School of Economics about, his research evaluating Sweden’s nationwide e-bike subsidy. The program successfully doubled e-bike sales, but had only a modest impact on reducing car use—far less than survey responses suggested. People bought b-bikes, then didn't really use them. When accounting for actual emissions reductions, the cost of carbon abatement was around $800 per ton, whi...
Episode Description
In this episode, Jeff and Scott talk with Anders Anderson, a finance professor at the Stockholm School of Economics about, his research evaluating Sweden’s nationwide e-bike subsidy. The program successfully doubled e-bike sales, but had only a modest impact on reducing car use—far less than survey responses suggested. People bought b-bikes, then didn't really use them. When accounting for actual emissions reductions, the cost of carbon abatement was around $800 per ton, which most people agree is more than the social cost of carbon. We discuss why the policy wasn’t cost-effective and what better subsidies might look like.
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