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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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E-Mobility: Transportation Sector in Transition
N. Shaukat,Bilal Khan +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the potential of transportation electrification for reducing harmful climatic emissions and the nexus of energy and economy with electric mobility is discussed and the main trends, challenges, and future research directions in electric mobility transformation are discussed.
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How do users adapt to a short-range battery electric vehicle in a two-car household? Results from a trial in Sweden
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors provided 25 two-car households with a short-range battery electric vehicle (BEV) to study their adaptation to a BEV replacing one of their conventional cars.
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Research on the Influence Mechanism of Consumers’ Purchase Intention of Electric Vehicles Based on Perceived Endorsement: A Case Study of Chinese Electric Vehicle Start-Ups
TL;DR: Zhang et al. as mentioned in this paper put forward the concept of perceived endorsement and discussed the relationship among perceived benefit, perceived risk, range anxiety, attitude and consumers' purchase intention and established a theoretical model of consumers’ purchase intention towards electric vehicles from start-ups.
Consumer Restistance to Innovations : The Case of Electric Passenger Cars on Gotland
TL;DR: The Swedish island Gotland provides suitable conditions for the successful implementation of electric cars and the availability of the product in the Gotlandic market is limited, according to the results of a feasibility study.
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Identification and evaluation of barriers in implementation of electric mobility in India
TL;DR: In this article , various barriers are identified through literature and interaction with domain experts and a hybrid structural model, which is a combination of AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) and DEMATEL (Decision making trial and evaluation laboratory) is used to evaluate those barriers.
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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).