What do we know about public perceptions and acceptance of hydrogen? A critical review and new case study evidence

Public attitudes towards renewable energy technologies in Norway. The role of party preferences

“…This vision of well-informed citizens faithfully supporting new technological developments has nonetheless been criticised repeatedly (Tipaldo 2011;Devine-Wright 2008b) and previous studies have also found that education does little to reduce differences between advocates of conventional and alternative energy technologies (Gottlieb and Matre 1976). To sum up, the knowledge deficit model has been met with a lot of criticism and there is still much uncertainty about what "knowledge" in the case of new renewables really constitutes, not to mention what shape it should take and how it should be disseminated in order to make people more positive towards these technologies (Ricci, Bellaby, and Flynn 2008). 3 What kind of knowledge is needed?…”

Private household demand for vehicles on alternative fuels and drive trains: a review

“…Second, research from the 80s and 90s mainly focused on the potential demand for battery EVs [13,14,24,27,38,39,54,55,79,90], while studies from the late 90s and 2000s rather address a mix of AFVs including EVs, LPG, CNG or methanol [21][22][23]33,34,42,81,87]. In line with technological developments, recent research also concentrates on HEVs [3,10,26,29,31,32,45,49,53,72], PHEVs [ 9 , 11], bi ofuels [51,68,69,80,89,91], hydrogen [2,66,74,76,86] and HFCVs [46,61,62,65]. Finally, most literature has been published in America.…”

“…In addition, the choice of survey questions might be subjected to potential biases (e.g., framing, sample selection bias etc.). Quantitative surveys might for example provide less opportunity to let people frame their own public perceptions and attitudes than qualitative surveys, but the latter encounters the limitation of being representative for wider populations [74]. Table 3 shows an increasing emergence of attitudinal surveys within the last 7 years, mainly executed in Europe.…”

“…Table 3 shows an increasing emergence of attitudinal surveys within the last 7 years, mainly executed in Europe. Except for Ricci et al [74] and Schulte et al [76], quantitative surveys were applied to reveal the consumer preferences for AFVs. Within the surveys, there is a predominance of measuring the attitudes towards hydrogen [2,66,74,86] and biofuel vehicles [69,89,91].…”

“…Except for Ricci et al [74] and Schulte et al [76], quantitative surveys were applied to reveal the consumer preferences for AFVs. Within the surveys, there is a predominance of measuring the attitudes towards hydrogen [2,66,74,86] and biofuel vehicles [69,89,91]. Overall, the general concern about environmental issues is found to be high (general positive environmental attitudes), but very often, this is not translated into changes in purchasing behaviour [2,66,74,94].…”