Adoption of alternative fuel vehicles: Influence from neighbors, family and coworkers

Jansson, Johan; Pettersson, Thomas; Mannberg, Andréa; Brännlund, Runar; Lindgren, Urban

doi:10.1016/j.trd.2017.04.012

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“…These preferences align with prior research in Norway [28] that found for EV owners, the media (inclusive of all types) was the most regarded information source, followed by family and friends. Social influence is another relevant driver for sales [53] and our results reveal that family and friends were well regarded as a source of information for female respondents. Interestingly, in Norway, only 1% of BEV owners would not buy an EV again [29], further evidencing that incentives and education, about potential benefits of EV ownership and ease of use, are policies that could help allay motorists' fears, enabling EVs to be the preferred choice.…”

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An Analysis of Consumer Incentives in Support of Electric Vehicle Uptake: An Australian Case Study

Broadbent

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Drozdzewski

2019

WEVJ

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Transitioning from internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEVs) to innovative technologies, including electric vehicles (EVs), can be a crucial pathway to reducing Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions and other negative externalities arising from fossil-fueled cars used for personal transport. Government action to correct insufficient market incentives has been essential in countries working to enhance EV acceptance; however, to date in Australia, there has been little government support to enact EV uptake. This paper identifies barriers and incentives to EV adoption in Australia through a survey of pro-environmental motorists, including an experimental component to test information provision influences on attitude change. Results evidence that wide ranging factors influence vehicle choice including EVs. Purchase barriers are focused on lack of a comprehensive recharge network and high EV purchase price. Factors encouraging fully EV uptake showed affordable price (56%) increased vehicle range (26%) and an adequate recharge network (28%) were mentioned most often; only 13% specifically indicated environmental regard as influential. Information provided about EVs increased the likelihood of positive attitudes towards EV purchase and decreased uncertainty about the technology. Recommendations arising from this research could be considered by laggard countries that, like Australia, have yet to take significant action to encourage transition to EVs.

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Section: Access To Information: Impact On Preferencesmentioning

confidence: 63%

An Analysis of Consumer Incentives in Support of Electric Vehicle Uptake: An Australian Case Study

Broadbent

Metternicht

Drozdzewski

2019

WEVJ

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“…However, different constructs related to emotional constructs or personal characteristics should be added to the original TPB to have a more comprehensive model for predicting customers' green hotels behaviors. It was also suggested to analyze direct or mediating effects of social influence, lifestyle, interpersonal relations, and anticipated emotions on pro-environmental behaviors and behavioral intentions in the hotel sector (Axsen, Orlebar, & Skippon, 2013;Jansson, Pettersson, Mannberg, Brännlund, & Lindgren, 2017;Rezvani, Jansson, & Bengtsson, 2017).…”

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The extended theory of planned behavior in Turkish customers' intentions to visit green hotels

Yarımoğlu¹,

2019

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Over the last decade, many studies have started to focus on understanding customers' green purchase intentions since the increasing importance of environmental issues in the hotel industry. This study examined customers' intentions to visit green hotels by using the theory of planned behavior. Two constructs, environmentally friendly activities and overall image, were incorporated into the theory, and the extended theory of planned behavior model was tested. The aim of this study was to analyze the effects of the extended theory of planned behavior constructs (attitudes towards green hotels, subjective norms, perceived control, environmentally friendly activities, and overall image) on visit intentions and also to predict the effects of visit intentions on willingness to pay, satisfaction, and loyalty. Within this aim, the research model was formed to show the antecedents and consequences of intentions to visit green hotels. Data were collected by face‐to‐face survey technique, and 400 usable questionnaires were held from the customers in Izmir City, Turkey. In the findings, four of five constructs in the antecedents of intentions, except perceived control, were found as significant, and all three consequences of intentions were found as significant. The results of the study supported the usage of the extended theory of planned behavior in the context of green hotels. Theoretical contributions and discussions were explained lastly.

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“…The reason why people purchase sustainable products (both lowinvolvement and high-involvement) has been an important question for researchers in several different fields. For example, economists have focused on the role of financial dis/incentives (Mannberg, Jansson, Pettersson, Brännlund, & Lindgren, 2014), sociologists and marketing researchers have focused on the role of interpersonal influence (Jansson, Pettersson, Mannberg, Brännlund, & Lindgren, 2017) and psychologists have focused on personal psychological factors such as attitudes and values (Rezvani, Jansson, & Bodin, 2015). Although all perspectives bring important knowledge to the area, in this study we use a consumer behavior and environmental psychology perspective assuming that consumers are driven to behave based on different types of motivations in their psychological setup.…”

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Consumer motivations for sustainable consumption: The interaction of gain, normative and hedonic motivations on electric vehicle adoption

2018

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Recent conceptual studies identify gain, normative and hedonic factors as three categories of motivations of consumer proenvironmental behavior. However, empirical understanding of how these motivations interact and affect proenvironmental behavior is limited. This study is based on a survey of car owners in Sweden (N = 573) and uses structural equation modeling to analyze the data. The empirical findings point to the importance of all three motivations (gain, normative and hedonic) in consumer electric vehicle adoption intentions. Furthermore, for consumers who perceive high social norms regarding sustainable consumption, the direct effect of hedonic motivations on behavioral intention is stronger, and the direct effect of gain motivations is insignificant. The business strategy implications indicate that targeting consumers who perceive high social norms in relation to proenvironmental behavior and communicating the hedonic and normative aspects of proenvironmental behaviors to this group might be more effective than general mass communication.

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Adoption of alternative fuel vehicles: Influence from neighbors, family and coworkers

Cited by 88 publications

References 52 publications

An Analysis of Consumer Incentives in Support of Electric Vehicle Uptake: An Australian Case Study

An Analysis of Consumer Incentives in Support of Electric Vehicle Uptake: An Australian Case Study

The extended theory of planned behavior in Turkish customers' intentions to visit green hotels

Consumer motivations for sustainable consumption: The interaction of gain, normative and hedonic motivations on electric vehicle adoption

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