Factors Influencing Electric Vehicle Adoption: Coupling Machine Learning Models and Open-Source Data

Electric vehicles (EVs) are increasingly promoted in many countries to reduce transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions, offering numerous environmental and economic benefits, such as lower tailpipe emissions and operating costs. However, predicting EV adoption entails access to comprehensive data sets. This study introduces a cost-effective alternative by leveraging open-source socioeconomic and demographic (SED) data from census records …