Intentions to introduce electric vehicles in the commercial sector: A model based on the theory of planned behaviour

Research in Transportation Economics

Volumn 55, Issue , 2016, Pages 12-19

  Kaplan, Sigal ^a   Gruber, Johannes ^b   Reinthaler, Martin ^c   Klauenberg, Jens ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

D12; D22; D81; Electric vehicles; Firms; Intentions; L91; O33; Structural equation models; Theory of planned behaviour; Vehicle fleet

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964680498     PISSN: 07398859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.retrec.2016.04.006     Document Type: Article

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