Developing an Electric Mobility Roadmap: International Experiences from Subnational Case Studies for Vietnamese Cities

• Xây dựng lộ trình phát triển phương tiện giao thông điện: kinh nghiệm quốc tế từ các nghiên cứu điển hình cấp địa phương cho các thành phố của Việt Nam

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This paper uses 23 subnational case studies to compare city and provincial electric mobility roadmaps and provides preliminary recommendations for Vietnamese cities based on case study observations. In addition, the paper discusses the process of preparing, creating, and implementation an electric mobility roadmap, covering aspects such as prerequisite analyses, stakeholder engagement, supporting policy formulation, and monitoring. Throughout the paper, experiences from actual case studies are referenced and analyzed.

Key Findings:

• Compared to case study cities with e-mobility roadmaps, Vietnamese cities have similar contexts with other Asian cities, but they are surprisingly comparable to Californian cities in terms of the percentage of passenger trips taken on public transit.

• Although the Southeast Asian cities examined in this paper do not have subnational e-mobility roadmaps, there are unique lessons that they can offer Vietnamese cities in terms of e-mobility adoption and other transport decarbonization solutions, such as electrifying inland water transport, improving public transport usage, and adopting other holistic measures to avoid and shift transport emissions.

• Most case studies characterized as emerging EV adopter tend to favor roadmaps that specifically promote e-mobility uptake, charging, and manufacture, but Vietnamese cities have the special opportunity to break away from the observed pattern and opt for roadmaps with a boarder scope of climate action, air quality control, or sustainable modal shift.

• There are a few instances of Global OEMs setting EV and battery plants in Southeast Asia, but Vietnam is a unique case where a local e-mobility OEM, Vinfast, is present and supplying EVs across different modes.

• After its development, there will still be many barriers to effectively implement an e-mobility roadmap, but they can be remedied by a carefully crafted policy package targeting the appropriate e-mobility actors, such as EV consumers.

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