A new era of sustainable transport: An experimental examination on forecasting adoption behavior of EVs among Malaysian consumer

Willingness to Pay for Environmentally Friendly Products among Low-Income Households along Coastal Peninsular Malaysia

“…Meanwhile, normative beliefs held by the low-income household heads were also found to have a significantly positive effect on their willingness to pay for green products. This finding supports the theories of and is in line with Wang et al [29] and Adnan et al [14], who advocated that in a collectivist society, such as that in Malaysia (being an Asian country), social norms have more contributory effects at influencing behavioral intentions towards purchase of green products than their personal counterparts. This finding further extends the notion presented by Wu and Chen [16], which suggests that in a collectivist society, normative beliefs do not only effect behavioral intention indirectly (through subjective norms), but also directly.…”

“…On the other hand, eco-literacy, due to consumers' lack of environmental knowledge, could cause an attitude-behavioral gap, resulting in inadequate intention towards purchasing green products [1]. Furthermore, in terms of subjective norms, as a combination of normative beliefs and personal norms, it is presumed that in a collectivist society, such as Malaysia (being an Asian country), certain individual traits, such as personal moral norms, values, or obligation (significant aspects in the individualistic western nations), do not contribute much to influencing intention and adoption of green products [14,29]. As such, this study embedded eco-literacy and environmental concern in the original TPB model as antecedents of consumers' attitudes towards environmentally friendly products, along with normative beliefs (as an independent variable) and perceived behavioral control, in order to determine willingness to pay (intention) and payment behavior for green products from the stance of low-income household heads in Malaysia.…”

Are Existing Battery Electric Vehicles Adoption Studies Able to Inform Policy? A Review for Policymakers

“…The evidence from Habich-Sobiegalla et al [42] suggests that a large social network is the most powerful factor for EV purchase intentions in China. Similar findings were also confirmed in Malaysia [36], which showed that consumers' EV purchase intentions were influenced by their social norms, rather than personal norms/beliefs. Also, Mohamed et al [37] showed that the specific notion of "made in Canada" vehicle adoption was deeply embedded in people's minds based on individual moral obligation to buy locally.…”

“…Meanwhile, more specific policies should be tailored to different kinds of EVs, as the policy incentives for these two types of cars are different. Table 3 summarises the factors associated with EV adoption intention as these were documented in studies published over the last five years [31,[34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45]. These factors include vehicle price, vehicle usage, social networks, personal norms, environmental awareness, pro-technology attitudes, monetary incentives, consumer cognitive status, product perception, driving emotions, marketing, V2G capability, and socio-economic characteristics.…”

Research on Real Purchasing Behavior Analysis of Electric Cars in Beijing Based on Structural Equation Modeling and Multinomial Logit Model

“…This paper will use SEM and MNL models to test the above assumptions [19,20,23,[33][34][35][36][37]. On the basis of verifying the influence path of attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavior control on purchase intention, we will use the MNL model to further study the impact of positive and negative attributes as intermediate variables on actual purchasing behavior.…”