Consumer purchase intentions for electric vehicles: Is green more important than price and range?

By Kenan Degirmenci, M. Breitner. 2017

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In view of global warming and climate change, a transition from combustion to electric vehicles (EVs) can help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve air quality. However, high acquisition costs and short driving ranges are considered to be main factors which impede the diffusion of EVs. Since electricity needs to be produced from renewable energy sources for EVs to be a true green alternative, the environmental performance of EVs is also presumed to be an important factor. This paper investigates the role of environmental performance compared to price value and range confidence regarding consumer purchase intentions for EVs. To develop our hypothesis, we interview 40 end-user subjects about their beliefs toward EVs. Then, we perform 167 test drives with a plug-in battery EV and conduct a survey with the participants to test the hypothesis. Results of a structural equation modeling support the hypothesis that the environmental performance of EVs is a stronger predictor of attitude and thus purchase intention than price value and range confidence.

Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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Consumers’ Intention to Purchase Electric Vehicles: Influences of User Attitude and Perception (2021, result): “Some previous studies have shown a rather non-significant impact of gender and age variables on EV purchase intention [38,39].”
The extended Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT2): A systematic literature review and theory evaluation (2021, background): “To that extent, this study included individual characteristics such as attitude (e.g., Degirmenci & Breitner, 2017; Hajli & Lin, 2016; Koohikamali et al., 2015; Nguyen et al., 2014a) and trust (e.g., Chaouali et al., 2016; Gu et al., 2016) as new mediating mechanisms in the baseline model based on…”
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Assessing the socio-demographic, technical, economic and behavioral factors of Nordic electric vehicle adoption and the influence of vehicle-to-grid preferences (2020, background): “12 Additionally, the environmental performance of EVs is found to be a stronger predictor of attitude and thus purchase intention than price value and driving range [62].”