How consumer drivers construe vehicle performance: Implications for electric vehicles

Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour

Volumn 23, Issue , 2014, Pages 15-31

  Skippon, Stephen M ^a  

^a Shell Thornton Research Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acceleration; Driver; Electric vehicle; Performance; Repertory grid; Smoothness

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; CARBON; ELECTRIC AUTOMOBILES; ELECTRIC VEHICLES; VEHICLES;

DRIVER; ELECTRIC POWER TRAINS; ELECTRIC VEHICLES (EVS); LOW CARBON VEHICLES; PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE BENEFITS; REPERTORY GRIDS; SMOOTHNESS;

VEHICLE PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84892150156     PISSN: 13698478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trf.2013.12.008     Document Type: Article

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