Demand for electric vehicles in hybrid households: an exploratory analysis

Private household demand for vehicles on alternative fuels and drive trains: a review

“…Despite the demonstrated utility of AFVs, respondents still desire ranges to be similar to that of a conventionally fuelled car, even when travel diaries showed that they were usually travelling less on a daily basis [38,61]. Acceptable driving ranges are found to be 160 km for EVs [38,54] up to 480 km for HFCVs [61]. On the other hand, consumer preferences might emerge with respect to the new qualities of AFVs (e.g., quiet ride, low maintenance costs) [38,54,55].…”

“…Most experimental studies shared the opinion that there is a strong concern for the environment, and a strong belief that lifestyle changes are required to solve environmental problems [38,39,54,55,90]. However, they also discovered that the environment was the lowest rate issue when purchasing a vehicle (see for example [55,90]).…”

“…Especially attitudinal surveys are often used in a first phase to develop the survey instrument or to obtain in-depth information about the consumers' attitudes on environmental issues. Second, research from the 80s and 90s mainly focused on the potential demand for battery EVs [13,14,24,27,38,39,54,55,79,90], while studies from the late 90s and 2000s rather address a mix of AFVs including EVs, LPG, CNG or methanol [21][22][23]33,34,42,81,87]. In line with technological developments, recent research also concentrates on HEVs [3,10,26,29,31,32,45,49,53,72], PHEVs [ 9 , 11], bi ofuels [51,68,69,80,89,91], hydrogen [2,66,74,76,86] and HFCVs [46,61,62,65].…”

“…Acceptable driving ranges are found to be 160 km for EVs [38,54] up to 480 km for HFCVs [61]. On the other hand, consumer preferences might emerge with respect to the new qualities of AFVs (e.g., quiet ride, low maintenance costs) [38,54,55]. In this respect, Kurani et al [55] argue that multi-vehicle households will combine AFVs and conventional vehicles in their stock to achieve the advantages of the different propulsion systems.…”

Behavioral response to hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and refueling: Results of California drive clinics

“…Many of these studies focused on understanding how consumers could address fundamental EV limitations. This included the exploration of the "hybrid household" hypothesis, which considered households that could incorporate EVs in a complementary fashion as part of their personal fleet alongside gasoline vehicles [7,8,9]. Other research has used data from EVs that were placed in households for a few weeks to study household travel behavior [10,11].…”