Whether the subsidized adoption is sustainable largely depends on consumers’ perceptions and motivation toward EVs purchase. In this study, we reveal the mechanism on how perceptions and motivation impact consumers’ EV purchase intention. Based on the analysis of 264 respondents, we find that perceived economic benefits, perceived environmental benefits, and perceived risks are correlated with each other. These perceptions can explain and predict attitudes towards EV purchase intention, thus playing primary roles in influencing EV adoption. We further find that regulatory focus (i.e. promotion-focus versus prevention-focus) has profound impacts on perceptions and the constructs of the theory of planned behavior. Promotion-focused respondents are more sensitive to perceived environmental benefits and more easily to form positive attitudes toward EV purchase, whereas the prevention-focused respondents are not. The findings can help policy-makers to make more effective adoption policy by emphasizing EV’s environmental benefits to consumers, and guide managers to more accurately activate consumers’ purchase intention through the angles of perceptions and motivation.

Is Subsidized Electric Vehicles Adoption Sustainable: Consumers’ Perceptions and Motivation Toward Incentive Policies, Environmental Benefits, and Risks

Biogas energy generated from livestock manure in China: Current situation and future trends.

Analysis of factors influencing residents' waste sorting behavior: A case study of Shanghai

Behavioral change in waste separation at source in an international community: An application of the theory of planned behavior.

The extensive participation of rural residents in household waste classification is indispensable for sustainable development. In comparison with urban residents, rural residents have a scattered living arrangement and possess little knowledge about environmental protection, which hinders the advancement of household waste classification. This study used the extended theory of planned behavior and structural equation modeling approach to identify the driving factors of rural residents’ household waste classification in China. An empirical study including 586 rural residents in 9 villages in Sichuan Province was conducted. Results show that the intention and behavior of rural residents’ household waste classification are significantly affected by factors such as publicity and education, attitudes, subjective norms, past behavior, and sense of belonging. The results are in line with the findings of existing literature. Notably, publicity and education are critical influencing factors. They not only directly affect the domestic waste classification intention and behavior of rural residents but also exert indirect influence via attitudes, subjective norms, and past behaviors. Moreover, the sense of belonging of villagers has a positive intermediary effect on transforming attitude to intention, past behavior to intention, and publicity and education to behavior. Residents with a lower sense of belonging are more easily affected by the classification behavior of people around them, whereas those with a higher sense of belonging directly transform received publicity and education to behavior. Therefore, strengthening publicity and education on waste classification and enhancing residents’ sense of belonging are paths forward to promote household waste classification in China's rural areas. The results of this study are also referable for rural household waste management in other countries. 

Hongyun Si

Papers

Investigating intention and behaviour towards sorting household waste in Chinese rural and urban–rural integration areas