Author: Rossen StanishevPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Consumer Reaction to the Introduction of Flex-fuel Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles
Author: Rossen StanishevConsumer Response to Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles
Author: Kenneth S. KuraniPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Consumer Dilemma to Purchase Hybrid Car
Author: Kooi Chung LengPublisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
ISBN: 1543758851
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
As industrialisation continues to evolve, exacerbating environmental problems such as global warming and climate change have raised the concern across the globe. Road transport is primarily the most notable source of pollution in the world. With the sophistication in environmental technology, a variety of environmentally friendly products have been introduced in the market and hybrid vehicle is highly recommended. However, in Malaysia automotive market demand for hybrid vehicle is still considered very low compared to non-hybrid vehicles and thus to conduct a study on consumer’s adoption toward hybrid car is timely. The study investigated the relationships between marketing mix (4Ps), environmental concern, governmental incentive and purchase intention of hybrid car in Malaysia. A total of 372 valid samples were collected using convenience sampling technique. The Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) by using Smart-PLS was employed to investigate the significance of individual path correlations, measurement model, and overall fit of structural model. The results of the study revealed that marketing mix (4Ps), governmental incentive, attitude, subject norm and perceived behavioural control showed a significant and positive relationship with hybrid car purchase intention. In addition environmental concern exhibits the moderation effect among those relationships.
Overcoming Barriers to Deployment of Plug-in Electric Vehicles
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309372208
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
In the past few years, interest in plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) has grown. Advances in battery and other technologies, new federal standards for carbon-dioxide emissions and fuel economy, state zero-emission-vehicle requirements, and the current administration's goal of putting millions of alternative-fuel vehicles on the road have all highlighted PEVs as a transportation alternative. Consumers are also beginning to recognize the advantages of PEVs over conventional vehicles, such as lower operating costs, smoother operation, and better acceleration; the ability to fuel up at home; and zero tailpipe emissions when the vehicle operates solely on its battery. There are, however, barriers to PEV deployment, including the vehicle cost, the short all-electric driving range, the long battery charging time, uncertainties about battery life, the few choices of vehicle models, and the need for a charging infrastructure to support PEVs. What should industry do to improve the performance of PEVs and make them more attractive to consumers? At the request of Congress, Overcoming Barriers to Deployment of Plug-in Electric Vehicles identifies barriers to the introduction of electric vehicles and recommends ways to mitigate these barriers. This report examines the characteristics and capabilities of electric vehicle technologies, such as cost, performance, range, safety, and durability, and assesses how these factors might create barriers to widespread deployment. Overcoming Barriers to Deployment of Plug-in Electric Vehicles provides an overview of the current status of PEVs and makes recommendations to spur the industry and increase the attractiveness of this promising technology for consumers. Through consideration of consumer behaviors, tax incentives, business models, incentive programs, and infrastructure needs, this book studies the state of the industry and makes recommendations to further its development and acceptance.
Consumer Response to Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles
Author: Kenneth S. KuraniPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Research Roadmap
Author: University of California, Davis. Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Research CenterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric vehicles
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Wired for Gasoline
Author: Jennifer TyreeHagemanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780438629677
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The development of Plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) represents the introduction of an alternative technology into a deeply embedded market--as automobiles and gasoline have been linked to one another through multiple and overlapping cultural, political, and technological developments since the early 1900s. The emergence of a market for PEVs takes place within an existing transportation system based on privately owned individual internal combustion engines that is entrenched in myriad symbolic, material, spatial, and habitual ways, and influences nearly all aspects of social life. This dissertation explores the matrix of political, economic, and cultural elements that combine to create a historically contingent context for the PEV market, and analyzes consumption within this context to offer a case study of consumer behavior in an emerging market. This research uses qualitative data, collected from semi-structured in-depth interviews, group workshops, and focus groups during a three year period, to identify the prevailing qualities consumers attribute to PEVs, and explain how they provide symbolic and functional value for consumers. This dissertation advances theories of valuation using the PEV market as a case study to illustrate how consumers negotiate value in an emerging industrial market. I argue that consumers perceive that a given quality (or qualities) of a PEV produces a particular performance which becomes, if viewed as desirable, a source of value. The value an individual consumer derives from the expected performance of a PEV is translated into an amount which they can then compare to the price of the vehicle when deciding whether to make an exchange. PEV drivers make their purchase expecting their vehicle to provide simultaneous performances in their physical state, their social position, and their imaginative world. I find that the environmental and technological qualities consumers assign to PEVs offer important sources of physical, positional, and symbolic value beyond the financial benefits often assessed in studies of PEV adoption. I argue that much of what is valued in the PEV market reflects the broader social values informed by sustainability ideology and the entrenched system of automobility. Moving from explaining sustainability policy narratives to describing dominant trends in analyses of consumers in the PEV market, I find that sustainability discourse, including analyses of pro-environmental behavior, acts as an influential discourse that shapes consumers' processes of valuation and evaluation of PEVs. In their narratives of (e)valuation, consumers attributed qualities (and subsequently value) to PEVs in ways that reproduced the myths of individual responsibility and technological utopianism based on ideological commitments to sustainability, even as they negotiated the boundaries of both. The relationship between sustainability ideology and PEVs reveals how institutions, ideology, and the socio-historical context of a market shape value creation as much as the interpretive activities of consumers.
Why Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles Are The Best Type Of Vehicles, Why Natural Gas Vehicles Do Not Warrant The Cost, Why Electric Cars Do Not Warrant The Cost, And The Ample Problems With Buying An Electric Vehicle
Author: Dr Harrison SachsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
This essay sheds light on why plug-in hybrid electric vehicles are the best type of vehicles and elucidates why natural gas vehicles do not warrant the cost. Moreover, why electric cars do not warrant the cost is delineated and the ample problems with buying an electric vehicle are explicated in this essay. Furthermore, the criteria for how to determine if buying a car is worth the investment is demystified and how to earn substantial money online so that you can afford to finance your plug-in hybrid electric vehicle purchase is expounded upon in this essay. While it may seem far fetched, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles are the utmost best type of vehicles available for sale on the car market in the digital era. Succinctly stated, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles are the utmost best type of vehicles since they can operate off electric power or gasoline, unlike other types of vehicles. "The reason that hybrid vehicles are more efficient than conventional gasoline-only vehicles is because they have the ability to 'reclaim' energy that was once wasted, for example, the energy used when braking" ("Plug In Hybrid," 2012). Regenerative braking for instance allows plug-in hybrid electric vehicles to partially recharge their battery pack. Regenerative braking can be exhibited enroute and helps prolong the vehicle's driving duration before the plug-in hybrid electric vehicle becomes rendered inoperable. In stark contrast to a typical hybrid vehicle, the plug-in hybrid electric vehicle has the highly pragmatic ability to be recharged "by connecting it to a wall outlet in your home or elsewhere" ("Plug In Hybrid," 2012). More customers are beginning to take heed of the possibility of procuring a plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. It is far more affordable it is to operate a car off of wattage as opposed to gasoline. Customers can even convert their existing hybrid vehicles into plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. This process involves going to an auto body shop so that vehicular modifications can allow their hybrid vehicle to be able to recharged when connected into "a wall outlet in your home or elsewhere" ("Plug In Hybrid," 2012). In order for a hybrid vehicle to become a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, an auto mechanic will need to "add extra batteries into the vehicle in order to improve the hybrid's electrical holding capacity and will also need to add a 'jack' "("Plug In Hybrid," 2012) so that it can connect "to the power grid" ("Plug In Hybrid," 2012). Even though converting a hybrid vehicle into a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle can be very costly, it is an expenditure worth paying if you profusely utilize your vehicle. Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles offer a host of benefits to vehicle owners. "The extra battery capacity of the plug-in hybrid is the key to reaping the benefits of the plug-in hybrid electric vehicle configuration. On a conventional hybrid car, that kind of extra capacity is out of reach since the hybrid vehicle never fully charges except on long freeway trips. By adding the plug in jack with the extra battery, the plug-in hybrid electric vehicle has the ability to use its extra capacity by running on all-electric mode for an extended range of 30 miles or more. That means that instead of depleting expense gasoline, the car uses electrical energy which is much cheaper. Since most trips are less than 30 miles, that means the vehicle can operate in-town without ever using a drop of gasoline" ("Plug In Hybrid," 2012). Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles discharge minimal tailpipe emissions relative to conventional gasoline powered vehicles. This means that they help reduce mankind's carbon footprint and decelerate the rate of climate change due to a reduction of carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere. Furthermore, by owning a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle you are less dependent on needing gasoline to fuel your vehicle than most vehicle owners. Fortunately, a plug-in hybrid vehicles can operate off of electricity.
Annual Energy Outlook
Author: Plug-In Electric Vehicles
Author: David B. SandalowPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0815703481
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Plug-in electric vehicles are coming. Major automakers plan to commercialize their first models soon, while Israel and Denmark have ambitious plans to electrify large portions of their vehicle fleets. No technology has greater potential to end the United States' crippling dependence on oil, which leaves the nation vulnerable to price shocks, supply disruptions, environmental degradation, and national security threats including terrorism. What does the future hold for this critical technology, and what should the U.S. government do to promote it? Hybrid vehicles now number more than one million on America's roads, and they are in high demand from consumers. The next major technological step is the plug-in electric vehicle. It combines an internal combustion engine and electric motor, just as hybrids do. But unlike their precursors, PEVs can be recharged from standard electric outlets, meaning the vehicles would no longer be dependent on oil. Widespread growth in the use of PEVs would dramatically reduce oil dependence, cut driving costs and reduce pollution from vehicles. National security would be enhanced, as reduced oil dependence decreases the leverage and resources of petroleum exporters. Brookings fellow David Sandalow heads up an authoritative team of experts including former government officials, private-sector analysts, academic experts, and nongovernmental advocates. Together they explain the current landscape for PEVs: the technology, the economics, and the implications for national security and the environment. They examine how the national interest could be served by federal promotion and investment in PEVs. For example, can tax or procurement policy advance the cause of PEVs? Should the public sector contribute to greater research and development? Should the government insist on PEVs to replenish its huge fleet of official vehicles? Plug-in electric vehicles are coming. But how soon, in what numbers, and to what effect? Feder