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Abstract

The underlying behaviour for peoples’ decisions to use the car can be hard to regulate, therefore incentives for choosing a more environmental friendly car could be a way to reduce the environmental damage that emissions from cars generate. The purpose of this thesis is to examine the costs of these subsides for Sweden in comparison with Norway, how much an electric car is subsidised in the two countries, and what the costs are for alternatives. It shows that subsidising electric cars is a very costly strategy to reduce carbon emissions compared to buying emission permits from the EU ETS and locking them in. Moreover, the Norwegian government pay far higher subsidies than the Swedish government, but the conditions are a bit different between the countries. The cost of BEV adaption has been high, and this study shows that the EU ETS strategy is more cost effective than the BEV subsidy strategy.