Responses to battery electric vehicles: UK consumer attitudes and attributions of symbolic meaning following direct experience to reduce psychological distance

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 525-531

  Skippon, Stephen ^a   Garwood, Mike ^b  

^a SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

^b EON Technologies   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electric vehicles; Personality; Recharging electric vehicles; Symbolic

Indexed keywords

BATTERY ELECTRIC VEHICLES; ELECTRIC AUTOMOBILES; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ELECTRIC VEHICLES; VEHICLES;

CONSUMER ATTITUDES; DIRECT EXPERIENCE; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTANCE; RUNNING COST; SYMBOLIC;

SECONDARY BATTERIES;

ATTITUDINAL SURVEY; CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; ELECTRIC VEHICLE; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; SYMBOLISM; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 79960838341     PISSN: 13619209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trd.2011.05.005     Document Type: Article

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