Advances in consumer electric vehicle adoption research: A review and research agenda

By Z. Rezvani, Johan Jansson, J. Bodin. 2015

1,204 citations recorded by the source corpus.

In spite of the purported positive environmental consequences of electrifying the light duty vehicle fleet, the number of electric vehicles (EVs) in use is still insignificant. One reason for the modest adoption figures is that the mass acceptance of EVs to a large extent is reliant on consumers’ perception of EVs. This paper presents a comprehensive overview of the drivers for and barriers against consumer adoption of plug-in EVs, as well as an overview of the theoretical perspectives that have been utilized for understanding consumer intentions and adoption behavior towards EVs. In addition, we identify gaps and limitations in existing research and suggest areas in which future research would be able to contribute.

Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Pollution

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In Electrical and Electronic Engineering

1. Johan Jansson
2. Nele Rietmann
3. Beatrice Hügler
4. Wenjie Zhan
5. Xiuhong He
6. Z. Rezvani
7. Benjamin Sovacool
8. M. Bengtsson

In Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

1. Johan Jansson
2. Z. Rezvani
3. M. Bengtsson
4. W. Abrahamse
5. Wenjie Zhan
6. Xiuhong He
7. A. Nordlund
8. Bert van Wee

In Pollution

1. Johan Jansson
2. Andrea Mannberg
3. Z. Rezvani
4. R. Brännlund
5. Wenjie Zhan
6. Benjamin Sovacool
7. Jingzheng Ren
8. Urban Lindgren

Citations in the corpus

• Examining drivers of sustainable consumption : the influence of norms and opinion leadership on electric vehicle adoption in Sweden (2017, background): “A problemwith the budding EV research is that most EV studies rely on intentions to adopt, and not on actual adoption (Rezvani et al., 2015).”
• Adoption barriers for electric vehicles: Experiences from early adopters in Sweden (2017, background): “[14,15].”
• Exploring consumer preferences towards electric vehicles: The influence of consumer innovativeness (2016, background): “Over the past decade, interest in EVs has resurfaced (Rezvani et al. 2015), mostly due to the importance placed on this technology in transitioning the transport sector onto a low carbon trajectory (van Bree et al.”
• Adoption of alternative fuel vehicles: Influence from neighbors, family and coworkers (2017, methodology): “In the literature that is developing with the purpose of better understanding consumer adoption of AFVs several frameworks and theoretical models have been used (for comprehensive reviews see Rezvani et al., 2015; Turcksin et al., 2013).”
• Size matters: How vehicle body type affects consumer preferences for electric vehicles (2017, background): “However, while the market for electric vehicles continues to grow, they still make up a small proportion of all vehicles sold around the world (Rezvani et al., 2015).”
• Fear and loathing of electric vehicles: The reactionary rhetoric of range anxiety (2019, background): “Either way, we believe that investigating the rhetorical aspects of range anxiety may help fill a literature gap in the EV literature, specifically about emotional responses of consumers to EVs (14), the understanding of which is important to developing policies to overcome EV deployment barriers.”