Print Email Facebook Twitter The Socio-Technical Transition for EVs in China Title The Socio-Technical Transition for EVs in China Author Wang, Zelin (TU Delft Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science) Contributor Kamp, L.M. (mentor) Kamp, Linda (graduation committee) Khodaei, H. (graduation committee) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Electrical Engineering | Sustainable Energy Technology Date 2022-07-14 Abstract In 2021, China is already the largest electric vehicle (EV) market with more than half of global sales. Compared to the situation ten years ago, EV development in China has experienced a huge growth almost from nothing. This development is a complex socio-technical transition process, which cannot be simplified as technology progress or business success. Therefore, based on the framework of multi-level perspective (MLP), this thesis aims to study how the socio-technical transition for EVs in China take place from the perspective of interactions and dynamics. The literature, reports, news and policy documents related to EV development and vehicle industry in China are collected, and the collected data and information are sorted and categorized into different elements for analyzing and proposing the interrelationships of these elements and how they change. The typical and significant findings and insights of the analysis are validated by semi-structured interviews with experts. A set of interaction mechanisms based on the MLP framework is proposed to explain how dynamics emerge and affect the socio-technical transition, and the effect of interactions on the transition is also conceptualized. The main findings of this thesis show how the socio-technical transition take place: Energy security and oil price are secondary landscape factors to drive the transition, and the smog issue and climate change emerge in succession as dominant landscape factors. The former opens a window of opportunity for early commercialization of EVs in China, the latter directly initiates the boom in EVs. The pressure from landscape developments makes the government, car manufacturers, consumers and the public have to make responses, which are or lead to element dynamics, such as the transformation of public perception and opinion on carbon emissions. Due to that there are interactions among these elements, more element dynamics are generated, such as intelligent and networking development of EVs. These element dynamics participate in the process of industry environment reshaping, industry layout adjustments and industry resource reallocation to further prompt the transition process, which helps EVs gradually gain socio-technical advantages and quickly penetrate the vehicle market. Subject electric vehiclessocio-technical transitionmulti-level perspectiveinteractionsdynamicsinterviews To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ea7372ff-248f-4b6f-8c66-c047ea139e75 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2022 Zelin Wang Files PDF Thesis.pdf 3.82 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:ea7372ff-248f-4b6f-8c66-c047ea139e75/datastream/OBJ/view