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Stephen Skippon
Researcher at Transport Research Laboratory
Publications - 24
Citations - 2704
Stephen Skippon is an academic researcher from Transport Research Laboratory. The author has contributed to research in topics: Car ownership & Poison control. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 24 publications receiving 2126 citations. Previous affiliations of Stephen Skippon include Royal Dutch Shell.
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Mainstream consumers driving plug-in battery-electric and plug-in hybrid electric cars: A qualitative analysis of responses and evaluations
Ella Graham-Rowe,Benjamin Gardner,Charles Abraham,Stephen Skippon,Helga Dittmar,Rebecca Hutchins,Jenny Stannard +6 more
TL;DR: Results highlight potential barriers to the uptake of current-generation (2010) plug-in electric cars by mainstream consumers, including the prioritization of personal mobility needs over environmental benefits, concerns over the social desirability of electric vehicle use, and the expectation that rapid technological and infrastructural developments will make current models obsolete.
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The Role of Instrumental, Hedonic and Ssymbolic Attributes in the Intention to Adopt Electric Vehicles
TL;DR: In this article, the authors study how private car drivers' perception of vehicle attributes may affect their intention to adopt electric vehicles (EVs) and find that people who believe that a proenvironmental self-identity fits with their self-image are more likely to have positive perceptions of EV attributes.
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The role of instrumental, hedonic and symbolic attributes in the intention to adopt electric vehicles
TL;DR: In this article, the authors study how private car drivers' perception of vehicle attributes may affect their intention to adopt electric vehicles (EVs) and find that people who believe that a pro-environmental self-identity fits with their self-image are more likely to have positive perceptions of EV attributes.
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Responses to battery electric vehicles: UK consumer attitudes and attributions of symbolic meaning following direct experience to reduce psychological distance
Stephen Skippon,Mike Garwood +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors were given direct experience of driving a battery electric vehicle followed by an attitudinal questionnaire, and a vignette exercise to evaluate their attributions of symbolic meaning.
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Can we reduce car use and, if so, how? A review of available evidence
TL;DR: In this article, a two-stage systematic search was conducted focusing on reviews published since 2000 and primary intervention evaluations referenced therein, finding that only 12 of the 77 evaluations were judged to be methodologically strong and only half of these found that the intervention being evaluated reduced car use.