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Barriers to widespread adoption of electric vehicles: An analysis of consumer attitudes and perceptions
Ona Egbue,Suzanna Long +1 more
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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.About:
This article is published in Energy Policy.The article was published on 2012-09-01. It has received 1207 citations till now.read more
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Hybrid Electric Vehicle Ownership and Fuel Economy Across Texas: An Application of Spatial Models
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the impact of various built environment and demographic attributes, including land use balance, employment density, population densities, median age, gender, race, education, household size, and income.
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Consumer Insight on Driverless Automobile Technology Adoption via Twitter Data: A Sentiment Analytic Approach
Michael Adu Kwarteng,Alex Ntsiful,Raphael Kwaku Botchway,Michal Pilík,Zuzana Kominkova Oplatkova +4 more
TL;DR: In this article, a dataset of tweets associated with driverless vehicles downloaded using the Twitter API was used to evaluate public opinions about the acceptance and adoption of the driverless vehicle ahead of their launch.
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Home energy storage: A characterization of potential adopters in Germany
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an in-depth analysis of motivational and psychological factors as well as product characteristics that affect the willingness to adopt domestic energy storage and find that potential adopters differ systematically in their evaluation of economic and non-economic characteristics of home energy storage.
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Paving the road for electric vehicles: Lessons from a randomized experiment in an introduction stage market
TL;DR: In this article, the authors study attitudes, perceptions, and valuations of a convenience sample of Chilean employees from an electric distribution company who applied for a subsidized electric vehicle (EV) acquisition program.
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Methodology for evaluating existing infrastructure and facilitating the diffusion of PEVs
Sergey K. Reid,David B. Spence +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the existing barriers that impact PEV diffusion and demonstrate how policymakers can create regionally weighted markets based on consumer surveys to facilitate the development of a national policy for nascent products like the PEVs.
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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).