Who will buy electric vehicles? Identifying early adopters in Germany

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 67, Issue , 2014, Pages 96-109

  Plötz, Patrick ^a   Schneider, Uta ^a   Globisch, Joachim ^a   Dütschke, Elisabeth ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS AND INNOVATION RESEARCH ISI   (Germany)

Author keywords

Consumer behaviour; Early adopter; Electric vehicles; Market diffusion

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; CONSUMER BEHAVIOR; ELECTRIC AUTOMOBILES; ELECTRIC VEHICLES; SALES; URBAN TRANSPORTATION;

CAR MANUFACTURERS; EARLY ADOPTER; ECONOMICAL BENEFITS; ELECTRIC VEHICLES (EVS); LOCAL EMISSIONS; SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS; TRANSPORT POLICY; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURE;

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; ELECTRIC VEHICLE; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION; TRANSPORTATION POLICY; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

GERMANY;

EID: 84907027162     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2014.06.006     Document Type: Article

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