Who will buy electric vehicles after early adopters? Using machine learning to identify the electric vehicle mainstream market

GZ de Rubens - Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
… (EVs) continue to penetrate passenger vehicle markets worldwide. Most current EV markets
… buyers being categorised as early adopters or pioneers. However, if electric vehicles are to …

Potential early adopters of hybrid and electric vehicles in Spain—Towards a customer profile

E Higueras-Castillo, S Molinillo, JA Coca-Stefaniak… - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
… [14] in Germany found that early adopters of EVs in that country tended to live in rural areas,
whereas urban dwellers were less likely to adopt EVs on the grounds of limited driving range…

How do consumers perceive electric vehicles? A comparison of German consumer groups

A Peters, E Dütschke - Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
… to identify the most likely early adopters or the most attractive vehicle concepts. For example,
… that the majority of potential car buyers still prefer conventional vehicles to EVs. Those who …

Who is buying electric vehicles in California? Characterising early adopter heterogeneity and forecasting market diffusion

JH Lee, SJ Hardman, G Tal - Energy Research & Social Science, 2019 - Elsevier
… plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) is contingent on them being adopted by consumers, the first
of which will be early adopters. The current understanding of these early adopters is based …

Predictors of electric vehicle adoption: An analysis of potential electric vehicle drivers in Austria

A Priessner, R Sposato, N Hampl - Energy policy, 2018 - Elsevier
… Although barriers to the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs), … of potential EV adopters and
drivers of early adoption becomes … early adopters, potential adopters, and non-adopters of EVs. …

How to trigger mass market adoption of electric vehicles? Factors predicting interest in electric vehicles in Germany

JP Wesche, P Plötz, E Dütschke - 2016 - econstor.eu
… Using their propositions concerning the Early Adopter as a starting point, our results
show that the Majority may be characterized as a hybrid between the Early Adopters and the …

Who are the early adopters of electric vehicles in commercial transport—A description of their trip patterns

I Frenzel - Commercial Transport: Proceedings of the 2nd …, 2015 - Springer
… by using electric vehicles in comparison to conventional vehicles, and how is thus done? …
electric vehicle users in Germany. Focusing on commercial early adopters the paper will first

Technology adoption of electric bicycles: A survey among early adopters

A Wolf, S Seebauer - Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2014 - Elsevier
… All items are translated from German. The factorial structure of all concepts and their discriminant
… and technophiles are strongly represented among early adopters of electric vehicles. …

Spatial diffusion of electric vehicles in the German metropolitan region of Stuttgart

S Linder, J Wirges - 2011 - econstor.eu
… in Germany. First, hypotheses of Early Adopters of EVs were constructed based on social
mobility profiles and the demands of car drivers. Secondly, the number of these potential …

Still underdetected–Social norms and collective efficacy predict the acceptance of electric vehicles in Germany

M Barth, P Jugert, I Fritsche - … research part F: traffic psychology and …, 2016 - Elsevier
… As in the preliminary studies, we chose to aim at the parts of the population from which early
adopters will most likely come. A link to the study was made available to students of a long-…