The Role of Learning Effect and Scale Effect in the Adoption of Energy Technologies for Alternative Fuel Vehicles

The Transitional Alternative Fuels Vehicle model simulates the use and cost of alternative fuels and alternative fuel vehicles over the period 1996 to 2010. It is designed to examine the transitional period of alternative fuel and vehicle use. It accounts for dynamic linkages between investments and vehicle and fuel production capacity, tracks vehicle stock evolution, and represents the effects of increasing scale and expanding retail fuel availability on the effective costs to consumers. Fuel and vehicle prices and choices are endogenous. Preliminary results that illustrate the role of potentially important transitional phenomena are discussed. This model extends previous, long-run comparative static analyses of policies that assumed mature vehicle and fuel industries. As a dynamic transitional model, it can help to assess what may be necessary to reach mature, large-scale, alternative fuel and vehicle markets, and what it would cost.

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Why has the introduction of natural gas vehicles failed in Germany?—Lessons on the role of market failure in markets for alternative fuel vehicles

Energy Policy ◽

10.1016/j.enpol.2014.12.022 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 78 ◽

pp. 91-101 ◽

Cited By ~ 28

Author(s):

Dirk Peters von Rosenstiel ◽

Daniel F. Heuermann ◽

Stefan Hüsig

Keyword(s):

Natural Gas ◽

Market Failure ◽

Alternative Fuel ◽

Alternative Fuel Vehicles ◽

Natural Gas Vehicles

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Operational experience with light-duty alternative fuel vehicles

10.2514/6.1994-3847 ◽

1994 ◽

Keyword(s):

Alternative Fuel ◽

Operational Experience ◽

Alternative Fuel Vehicles ◽

Light Duty

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Reward Prediction Errors Drive Declarative Learning Irrespective of Agency

10.31234/osf.io/63g9w ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Kate Ergo ◽

Luna De Vilder ◽

Esther De Loof ◽

Tom Verguts

Keyword(s):

Learning Theory ◽

Learning Effect ◽

Steady Increase ◽

Prediction Errors ◽

Experimental Paradigm ◽

Reward Prediction ◽

Declarative Learning

Recent years have witnessed a steady increase in the number of studies investigating the role of reward prediction errors (RPEs) in declarative learning. Specifically, in several experimental paradigms RPEs drive declarative learning; with larger and more positive RPEs enhancing declarative learning. However, it is unknown whether this RPE must derive from the participant’s own response, or whether instead any RPE is sufficient to obtain the learning effect. To test this, we generated RPEs in the same experimental paradigm where we combined an agency and a non-agency condition. We observed no interaction between RPE and agency, suggesting that any RPE (irrespective of its source) can drive declarative learning. This result holds implications for declarative learning theory.

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Financing Energy Access in Africa

10.1093/oso/9780198819837.003.0006 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Peter Kayode Oniemola ◽

Jane Ezirigwe

Keyword(s):

Oil And Gas ◽

Sub Saharan Africa ◽

Capital Investments ◽

Energy Access ◽

African Countries ◽

Sustainable Technologies ◽

Energy Technologies ◽

Sub Saharan ◽

Diesel Motors

To achieve universal energy access will attract huge capital investments. If sub-Saharan Africa is to realize anything close to the ambitious goals set for its energy access, then new actors, innovative funding mechanisms and sustainable technologies will have to be attracted. Finance is needed for activities such as rural electrification, clean cooking facilities, diesel motors and generators, other renewable energy technologies, oil and gas infrastructures, etc. Finance is also needed in research and development of suitable technologies and funding options as well as investment in the capacity to formulate and implement sound energy policies. This chapter examines the varied financing options for energy access in sub-Saharan Africa. It argues that with appropriate laws in place and effective mechanism for implementation, African countries can significantly engage private sector financing, international financial institutions and foreign donors. The role of the law here will be in creating an enabling environment for financing.

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