Supply chain analysis under a price-discount incentive scheme for electric vehicles |
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Authors: | Chunlin Luo Mingming Leng Jian Huang Liping Liang |
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Affiliation: | 1. Faculty of Business, Lingnan University, Tuen Mun, N.T., Hong Kong;2. School of Information Technology, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, China |
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Abstract: | We investigate an automobile supply chain where a manufacturer and a retailer serve heterogeneous consumers with electric vehicles (EVs) under a government’s price-discount incentive scheme that involves a price discount rate and a subsidy ceiling. We show that the subsidy ceiling is more effective in influencing the optimal wholesale pricing decision of the manufacturer with a higher unit production cost. However, the discount rate is more effective for the manufacturer with a lower unit production cost. Moreover, the expected sales are increasing in the discount rate but may be decreasing in the subsidy ceiling. Analytic results indicate that an effective incentive scheme should include both a discount rate and a subsidy ceiling. We also derive the necessary condition for the most effective discount rate and subsidy ceiling that maximize the expected sales of EVs, and obtain a unique discount rate and subsidy ceiling that most effectively improve the manufacturer’s incentive for EV production. |
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Keywords: | Electric vehicle Supply chain Price discount Incentive scheme |
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