… early adopters are key actors in the adoption of innovations. Studies on the adoption of
electronic … A German study on who the likely EV buyer is (in this study, EV is synonymous with …

… to initial three customer groups-innovators, early adopters, and early majority from the
technology adoption … The profile of these early adopters also revealed that they are young and …

… Electric vehicles (EVs) are currently being discussed as a promising means to increase the
… the customer segments containing the most likely early adopters and to target development, …

… [21] identify early adopters of EV in Germany until 2020 on the basis … vehicles, which tend
to be in rural areas or in the outskirts. However, selling EV only to this group of early adopters …

… (eg government as anchor adopter of E-carsharing such as in Karlsruhe, Germany) support
… early adopters and it must be observed how these adopter characteristics change over time. …

… the French-German project region. Professional as well as private EV adoption intentions are
… 34 Within this study 99 % of the respondents were users of pure electric vehicles (BEV). In …

… come from broader consumer segments rather than being early adopters [16]. Second, a …
approach to identify the preferred components of German consumers. The authors identify IT…

… a large share of the German population sees electric cars as … Factors that might explain
electric car adoption are … as potential early adopters or representative samples of the car buyer …

… earlier, it is possible that voluntariness of early adopters leads … vehicle fleets which adopt
EVs in an early stage of the market will face the same methodological problems of early adopter …

… , so that EV adoption has reached the early majority stage already (Rogers, Citation1971).
Rogers lists innovators as the first 2.5% of users, followed by early adopters (the following 13.5…