What are the barriers to widespread adoption of battery electric vehicles? A survey of public perception in Tianjin, China

By Zhen-Yu She, Qingle Sun, Jia-Jun Ma, Bai-Chen Xie. 2017

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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): “grid and stores it on board for propulsion [6].”
Pleasure or profit? Surveying the purchasing intentions of potential electric vehicle adopters in China (2019, background): “To be sure, this “joy” need not always be based in utilitarian calculations; in some instances it can be an amalgamation of aesthetics, sensory responses, and notions of social or environmental sustainability (Sheller 2004; Ryghaug and Toftaker 2014).”
How to activate moral norm to adopt electric vehicles in China? An empirical study based on extended norm activation theory (2018, background): “Worse still, consumers have little interest in EVs, and a large proportion of them are in a state of wait-and-see (She et al., 2017).”