Adoption of alternative fuel vehicles: Influence from neighbors, family and coworkers
By Johan Jansson, T. Pettersson, Andrea Mannberg, R. Brännlund, Urban Lindgren. 2017
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During the last years, many governments have set targets for increasing the share of biofuels in the transportation sector. Understanding consumer behavior is essential in designing policies that efficiently increase the uptake of cleaner technologies. In this paper we analyze adopters and non-adopters of alternative fuel vehicles (AFVs). We use diffusion of innovation theory and the established notion that the social system and interpersonal influence play important roles in adoption. Based on a nationwide database of car owners we analyze interpersonal influence on adoption from three social domains: neighbors, family and coworkers. The results point primarily at a neighbor effect in that AFV adoption is more likely if neighbors also have adopted. The results also point at significant effects of interpersonal influence from coworkers and family members but these effects weaken or disappear when income, education level, marriage, age, gender and green party votes are controlled for. The results extend the diffusion of innovation and AFV literature with empirical support for interpersonal influence based on objective data where response bias is not a factor. Implications for further research, environmental and transport policy, and practitioners are discussed.
Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Pollution
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Citations in the corpus
- Consumers’ Intention to Purchase Electric Vehicles: Influences of User Attitude and Perception (2021, background): “Consequently, growing concerns about the environmental impact of current road transportation systems have accelerated the adoption of clean, energy-efficient and environmentally friendly alternatives that can reduce the carbon footprint [2].”
- Consumer motivations for sustainable consumption : the interaction of gain, normative and hedonic motivations on electric vehicle adoption (2018, background): “The finding with regard to the role of personal moral norms or the normative motivations is in line with previous research (e.g. Jansson, 2011; Jansson et al., 2017), which shows that personal moral norms are important predictors of high-involvement consumer pro-environmental behavior.”