Early Adopter Nation for Electric Vehicles: The Case of Iceland

Transport geography in Iceland

“…Global tourism contributes about 8% of the world's carbon footprint ( Lenzen et al, 2018 ), and researchers in Iceland are well aware of the impact that the country's tourism industry has on this metric ( Sharp et al, 2016 ). Notwithstanding the collective carbon footprint of international travelers, Iceland has become a leader in domestic sustainable mobility in recent years, with significant research on electric vehicles encouraged by cheap hydroelectricity and short distances between settlements ( de Rubens et al, 2020 ; Lin and Sovacool, 2020 ; Ottesen and Banna, 2020 ; Driscoll et al, 2012 ; Shafiei et al, 2012 ). Iceland has encouraged fiscal incentives for electric vehicle development ( Shafiei et al, 2018 ), while challenges related to decarbonization strategies ( Sovacool et al, 2018 ), low-carbon alternative fuels ( Shafiei et al, 2014a , Shafiei et al, 2014b ), and the expanded use of hydrogen in transport ( Farrell et al, 2003 ) continue to shape the progress of sustainable mobility.…”

Evaluating Kuwait’s Electric Vehicle Lag: In-Depth Analysis of Owner Experiences, Dealer Perspectives, and Policy Recommendations with Local Data Insights

“…Our secondary method is a forward regression on consumer demands (built on the results from the first study) depending on three set of scenarios of infrastructural build up and incentive policies [5][6][7].…”

Driving Factors for Women's Switch to Electric Vehicles in Conservative Kuwait

“…The growing literature on consumers' attitudes toward EVs (e.g., Anagnostopoulou et Vilchez et al, 2017) shows that the following factors influence most consumers' attitudes toward EVs in developed markets (e.g., US, Japan, and European countries): vehicle price, speed, purchase cost, driving range, battery replacement, recharging time, and maintenance cost. Ottesen and Banna (2018) find that financial factors, battery-charging infrastructure, and battery-related concerns remain major obstacles to widespread EV penetration in Iceland. Mandys (2021) suggests that potential EV adopters in the UK constitute young people: students and married people with good incomes.…”