Consumer Views on Transportation and Advanced Vehicle Technologies

Singer, Mark

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“…A recent survey found that only 24% of respondents were even considering purchasing a small sedan. 501 Some 68% of respondents indicated that they would consider paying a premium for an EV, but an HEV with a $2,000 premium was preferred to a PHEV with a $4,000 premium. Half of the respondents said that availability of wireless charging would increase their willingness to consider a BEV.…”

Section: Markets and Market Actors Light-duty Consumersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Electricity End Uses, Energy Efficiency, and Distributed Energy Resources Baseline

Schwartz

Wei

Morrow

et al. 2017

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National Laboratory is an equal opportunity employer.ii Scope and OrganizationThis report was developed by a team of analysts at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, with Argonne National Laboratory contributing the transportation section, and is a DOE EPSA product and part of a series of "baseline" reports intended to inform the second installment of the Quadrennial Energy Review (QER 1.2). QER 1.2 provides a comprehensive review of the nation's electricity system and cover the current state and key trends related to the electricity system, including generation, transmission, distribution, grid operations and planning, and end use. The baseline reports provide an overview of elements of the electricity system. This report focuses on end uses, electricity consumption, electric energy efficiency, distributed energy resources (DERs) (such as demand response, distributed generation, and distributed storage), and evaluation, measurement, and verification (EM&V) methods for energy efficiency and DERs.Chapter 1 provides context for the report and an overview of electricity consumption across all market sectors, summarizes trends for energy efficiency and DERs and their impact on electricity sales, and highlights the benefits of these resources as well as barriers to their adoption. Lastly it summarizes policies, regulations, and programs that address these barriers, highlighting crosscutting approaches, from resource standards to programs for utility customers to performance contracting.Chapters 2 through 5 characterize end uses, electricity consumption, and energy efficiency for the residential, commercial, and industrial sectors as well as electrification of the transportation sector. Chapter 6 addresses DERs-demand response, distributed generation, and distributed storage.Several chapters in this report include appendices with additional supporting tables, figures, and technical detail. In addition, the appendix also includes a separate section that discusses current and evolving EM&V practices for energy efficiency and DERs, approaches for conducting reliable and costeffective evaluation, and trends likely to affect future EM&V practices. Description of Energy Models aUnless otherwise noted, this report provides projections between the present-day and 2040 using the "EPSA Side Case," a scenario developed using a version of the Energy Information Administration's (EIA's) National Energy Modeling System (NEMS). Since the EPSA Side Case was needed for this and other EPSA baseline reports in advance of the completion of EIA's Annual Energy Outlook (AEO) 2016, it uses data from EIA's AEO 2015 Reference Case, the most recent AEO available at the time. However, since AEO 2015 did not include some significant policy and technology developments that occurred during 2015, the EPSA Side Case was designed to reflect these changes.The EPSA Side Case scenario was constructed using EPSA-NEMs, b a version of the same integrated energy system model used by EIA. The EPSA Side Case input assumptions were based mainly on the final ...

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Section: Markets and Market Actors Light-duty Consumersmentioning

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Electricity End Uses, Energy Efficiency, and Distributed Energy Resources Baseline

Schwartz

Wei

Morrow

et al. 2017

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“…NAS (2015) reports on a Pike Research (2012) study that found that 55% of vehicle shoppers had "favorable" or "very favorable" impressions of PEVs (a decline from 62% in 2009), despite much lower purchase rates. Singer (2015) also finds that a relatively high percentage of consumers (52%) said that PHEVs were "'just as good or better than' traditional ICEs," with a similarly high percentage (45%) saying the same for BEVs. Singer (2015) also finds that 48% of survey respondents can name a specific PEV make and model and 49% report having seen PEVs in parking lots (see Table 3 -3).…”

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“…Singer (2015) also finds that a relatively high percentage of consumers (52%) said that PHEVs were "'just as good or better than' traditional ICEs," with a similarly high percentage (45%) saying the same for BEVs. Singer (2015) also finds that 48% of survey respondents can name a specific PEV make and model and 49% report having seen PEVs in parking lots (see Table 3 -3). However, more than 40% of respondents believed they had never been in or near a PEV and very few (18%) were aware of charging stations on their regular driving routes.…”

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Consumer Behavior and the Plug-In Electric Vehicle Purchase Decision Process: A Research Synthesis

Taylor

Fujita

2018

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Executive SummaryThis report synthesizes consumer behavior research as it pertains to the plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) purchase decision process. The purpose is to clarify what is known about the vital role consumers play in the U.S. PEV market as it matures to become less policy-reliant and more representative of the U.S., both spatially and demographically. A more representative PEV market will: help OEMs recoup more of their R&D investments in PEVs; help American consumers access the economic and performance benefits of PEVs; and help the U.S. become more energy independent while improving air quality-related public health and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.This report draws heavily from the marketing literature for its organization and insights. Section 2 introduces the standard five steps of the purchase decision process used in consumer behavior research and introduces important internal and external factors that are likely to affect that decision process. Section 3 provides a review of transportation data and literature that is structured around these five purchase decision steps, namely problem recognition, search (both internal and external), alternative evaluation, purchase, and post-purchase behavior. The final section of the report, Section 4, highlights cross-cutting themes in consumer behavior research that are relevant to the maturation of the U.S. PEV market. It also provides a table that compiles a variety of research topics that would fill important knowledge gaps about the PEV purchase decision process.The report identifies several challenges on the consumer side of the PEV purchase process. These include experience gaps and the need for consumers to make high investments of time and effort in the PEV purchase decision-making process and in post-purchase use. As is true for many purchase decisions, there is potential for negative emotions to arise throughout the PEV purchase decision process and for consumers to have negative purchase consequences. The vehicle purchase context can compound some of these challenges and/or differentiate how they play out with respect to PEV purchases versus traditionally-fueled light-duty vehicle purchases. Relevant contextual elements include: time constraints for purchase; rapid technological change in both PEVs and traditionally-fueled vehicles; and competition between PEVs and traditionallyfueled vehicles that are familiar, high-quality, and prominently advertised by OEMs.Despite these challenges, the report makes clear that there is an increasing value proposition for PEV purchase for a growing group of consumers based on the economic, performance, convenience, psycho-social, and societal benefits of PEVs. To increase public awareness of this value proposition, the report emphasizes the importance of emotional appeals and highlights the possible role of PEV owners in shaping these appeals.iii

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“…A series of long-standing surveys by J.D. Power and Opinion Research Corportation has asked consumers for their views on different vehicle attributes, including dependability, price, and fuel economy (Singer, 2015). People's opinion on the most important attribute is strongly correlated with the price of fuel, as shown in Figure 21 (DOE, 2016a).…”

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Historical Review of the Transportation Analysis Fact of the Week, 1996-2017

Gohlke

Davis

2017

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The Vehicle Technologies Office in the United States Department of Energy hosts a transportation analysis fact of the week on its webpage. As of October 2017, one thousand facts have been published since 1996. Examining the themes of published facts allows one to trace analytical trends determined to be of interest to the public over this time. The most popular themes addressed in the Fact of the Week were vehicle fuel economy, petroleum use and production, vehicle sales, and traveler behavior. Facts on vehicle electrification and advanced combustion technologies have been more popular in the last few years, showing their relevance to the Department of Energy mission.

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Consumer Views on Transportation and Advanced Vehicle Technologies

Abstract: who provided helpful insights into how vehicle technologies might be accepted into the marketplace.

Cited by 4 publications

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Electricity End Uses, Energy Efficiency, and Distributed Energy Resources Baseline

Electricity End Uses, Energy Efficiency, and Distributed Energy Resources Baseline

Consumer Behavior and the Plug-In Electric Vehicle Purchase Decision Process: A Research Synthesis

Historical Review of the Transportation Analysis Fact of the Week, 1996-2017

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