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Barriers to widespread adoption of electric vehicles: An analysis of consumer attitudes and perceptions

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In this paper, the authors identify potential socio-technical barriers to consumer adoption of EVs and determine if sustainability issues influence consumer decision to purchase an EV, and provide valuable insights into preferences and perceptions of technology enthusiasts; individuals highly connected to technology development and better equipped to sort out the many differences between EVs and CVs.
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This article is published in Energy Policy.The article was published on 2012-09-01. It has received 1207 citations till now.

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You are what you drive: Environmentalist and social innovator symbolism drives electric vehicle adoption intentions

TL;DR: In this article, the role of symbolic and instrumental attributes in low-emission vehicle adoption was investigated, focusing exclusively on EVs to better understand perceptions associated with their unique technical capabilities.
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A Bidirectional Battery Charger With Modular Integrated Charge Equalization Circuit

TL;DR: In this paper, a bidirectional structure with two operation modes for a modular battery stack is developed, which has active and reactive control capabilities during grid to vehicle and vehicle to grid operations.
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Optimizing charging station locations for urban taxi providers

TL;DR: In this paper, a decision support system for placing charging stations to satisfy the charging demand of electric taxi vehicles is proposed, which is based on taxi data from about 800 vehicles and a variant of a set covering problem is formulated and solved.
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Business innovation and government regulation for the promotion of electric vehicle use: lessons from Shenzhen, China

TL;DR: Using the business model canvas framework, the authors analyzes interactions between enterprises and governments along the value chain of electric vehicles in the bus and taxi fleets, and discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the Shenzhen model both in business innovation and government regulation for promoting electric vehicle use.
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Integration of electric vehicles and management in the internet of energy

TL;DR: The EV technologies, their connectivity, impacts on grid and standards required for the efficient and economic operation of EVs with distributed energy resources in the IoE, and the evolution, comparison, and storage potential are thoroughly discussed.
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The theory of planned behavior

TL;DR: Ajzen, 1985, 1987, this article reviewed the theory of planned behavior and some unresolved issues and concluded that the theory is well supported by empirical evidence and that intention to perform behaviors of different kinds can be predicted with high accuracy from attitudes toward the behavior, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control; and these intentions, together with perceptions of behavioral control, account for considerable variance in actual behavior.
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Car use: lust and must. Instrumental, symbolic and affective motives for car use

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report results of two questionnaire studies aimed at examining various motives for car use, and investigate individual differences in the relative importance of the three categories of motives were investigated.
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Giving Green to Get Green: Incentives and Consumer Adoption of Hybrid Vehicle Technology

TL;DR: In this paper, the relative efficacy of state sales tax waivers, income tax credits and non-tax incentives for hybrid-electric vehicle adoption in the United States has been studied and shown that the type of tax incentive offered is as important as the value of the tax incentive.
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Beyond batteries: an examination of the benefits and barriers to plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and a vehicle-to-grid (V2G) transition

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore both the promise and the possible pitfalls of the plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) and vehicle-to-grid (V2G) concept, focusing first on its definition and then on its technical state-of-the-art.
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Electric vehicles: How much range is required for a day’s driving?

TL;DR: In this article, a full year of high-resolution driving data from 484 instrumented gasoline vehicles in the US is used to analyze daily driving patterns, and from those infer the range requirements of electric vehicles (EVs).
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