Inter-niche competition on ice? Socio-technical drivers, benefits and barriers of the electric vehicle transition in Iceland

X Lin, BK Sovacool - Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the drivers, benefits and barriers of battery electric vehicle (BEV)
development and an ongoing BEV transition in Iceland from a sociotechnical perspective …

The EV paradox–A multilevel study of why Stockholm is not a leader in electric vehicles

B Nykvist, M Nilsson - Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 2015 - Elsevier
Despite seemingly favourable conditions for alternative road-based transport technologies,
progress on battery electric vehicles (BEVs) have been slow in Stockholm. We investigate …

[HTML][HTML] Perspectives on Norway's supercharged electric vehicle policy

E Figenbaum - Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 2017 - Elsevier
Norway has achieved an unprecedented breakthrough for battery electric vehicles. The
market share reached 17.1% in 2015, and the total fleet passed 2.7%, some 70000 vehicles …

How policies and actor strategies affect electric vehicle diffusion and wider sustainability transitions

M Ryghaug, TM Skjølsvold - Proceedings of the National …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Implementing electromobility is a central component in the de-carbonization of personal
mobility. In recent years, the absolute number of electric vehicles (EVs) and their market …

[HTML][HTML] Temporal echoes and cross-geography policy effects: Multiple levels of transition governance and the electric vehicle breakthrough

TM Skjølsvold, M Ryghaug - Environmental Innovation and Societal …, 2020 - Elsevier
This article analyses the Norwegian electric vehicle transition from a socio-technical
perspective, shedding light on the emergence of one of the most important EV markets …

[HTML][HTML] Transforming socio-technical configurations through creative destruction: Local policy, electric vehicle diffusion, and city governance in Norway

KY Bjerkan, NM Bjørge, S Babri - Energy Research & Social Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Transforming mobility systems in sustainable directions will likely rely on several niche-
innovations outperforming incumbent regimes that support non-sustainable ways of …

Assessing the transition towards Battery Electric Vehicles: A Multi-Level Perspective on drivers of, and barriers to, take up

N Berkeley, D Bailey, A Jones, D Jarvis - Transportation Research part A …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Multi-Level Perspective (MLP) framework on transitions is used to interpret
European electric vehicle take up and auto mobility transition. It finds that environmental and …

Governing the electric vehicle transition–Near term interventions to support a green energy economy

M Nilsson, B Nykvist - Applied energy, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper seeks to better understand how one plausible development in a green energy
economy transition of the transport sector can be governed: a breakthrough of battery …

Analysing the take up of battery electric vehicles: An investigation of barriers amongst drivers in the UK

N Berkeley, D Jarvis, A Jones - Transportation Research Part D: Transport …, 2018 - Elsevier
The stream of announcements in 2017, effectively banning the production and sales of
internal combustion engine vehicles within the next fifteen-twenty years, indicate how …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding the socio-technical nexus of Nordic electric vehicle (EV) barriers: A qualitative discussion of range, price, charging and knowledge

L Noel, GZ de Rubens, J Kester, BK Sovacool - Energy Policy, 2020 - Elsevier
Electric vehicles are perceived as a key alternate to internal combustion engine vehicles for
a transition to a decarbonized society. However, this transition towards the electrification of …