Realizing the electric-vehicle revolution

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 328-333

  Tran, Martino ^a,b   Banister, David ^a   Bishop, Justin D K ^a,b   McCulloch, Malcolm D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION BEHAVIOR; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSUMER-RESOURCE INTERACTION; DEMAND-SIDE MANAGEMENT; ELECTRIC VEHICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY;

EID: 84860293972     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1429     Document Type: Review

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