Highlights Electric vehicle adoption behavior of Indian consumers is evaluated. Perceived benefit is found to have highest positive effect on purchase intention. Lack of faith in actual implementation of policy affects adoption intention. People are uncertain about the usefulness and ease of use of electric vehicle. Education, income and travel distance are also important determinants.

    Abstract In view of mitigating the threat of climate change due to emissions from transportation sector and to reduce the dependency on foreign countries for oil, many countries have started to develop policies for promoting sustainable and innovative transport technologies. Electric Vehicles (EVs) are considered as one of the best sustainable alternatives to Internal Combustion (IC) engine vehicles. In order to develop fiscal and non-fiscal policy measures for EVs, a thorough understanding about its public acceptability is inevitable for its successful penetration. Even though many policies are purposefully made for improving the EV adoption in developing countries such as India, its market share is still negligible compared to conventional vehicles. Therefore, a case study was conducted in a representative town in India by using a questionnaire survey. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was adopted to evaluate the influence of various attitudinal factors on EV purchase intention of the individuals. The results of the study revealed that, the attitudinal factors such as perceived benefits, social influence, price acceptance, performance, technological consciousness, and marketing, distribution and after-sales have positive effect on EV purchase intention. But, the factors like perceived barriers, policy attributes and perceived usefulness and ease of use causes an impeditive effect on EV adoption. People traveling short distances, having lower income, higher education and more experience with driving conventional vehicles is found to favor the adoption of EVs.


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    Titel :

    Evaluating the factors influencing purchase intention of electric vehicles in households owning conventional vehicles


    Beteiligte:

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2021-05-31


    Format / Umfang :

    8 pages




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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