COMPOSE 4.0

The desired long-term transition towards electric truck transport is currently hindered by nation-wide net congestion and the availability and feasibility of individually-owned charging infrastructure. This may endanger the national and EU-wide truck electrification goals of 2030 and beyond. In this project, we therefore investigate the potential of collaborative EV charging, i.e., investments in and usage of one shared EV charging infrastructure by multiple companies.

We take a multidisciplinary perspective from the three fields of economics, social psychology, and law to gain new insights. Via social psychology experiments based on public goods games, we gather data on decision makers’ motivations to participate in collaborative solutions under current and new subsidy schemes and legislative regulations. The results are shared with and applied within logistics companies via master thesis internship projects and are thereby directly allow for the usage of the new scientific insights in practice.