Strategic intentions to the diffusion of electric mobility paradigm: The case of internal combustion engine vehicle

Song, Chie Hoon; Aaldering, Lukas Jan

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.05.126

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“…Electrification offers car manufacturers the opportunity to differentiate their vehicles in ways that did not exist with internal combustion engines (ICEs; Figenbaum, 2017; Song & Aaldering, 2019). For example, vehicle range and charging infrastructure availability were not relevant with ICE cars (Bauer, Zheng, Greenblatt, Shaheen, & Kammen, 2020; Beak, Kim, Maeng, & Cho, 2020).…”

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Fun to drive? The dynamics of car manufacturers' differentiation strategies

Hoeft

2021

Strategic Change

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Car manufacturers attempt to differentiate through a combination of technological and nontechnological differentiators, motivated by varying degrees of sustainability and competitive advantage rationale across first movers and followers. This paper investigates how differentiation efforts disseminate from individual firms to industry‐wide engagements and why some firms decide to move first. The case of incumbent car manufacturers is used to shed light on how and why firms differentiate and how differentiation links to the sustainability transition of the industry. The research highlights that car manufacturers attempt to differentiate through a combination of technological and nontechnological differentiators, motivated by varying degrees of sustainability and competitive advantage rationale across first movers and followers. A first‐mover advantage is particularly evident in technological differentiators.

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Fun to drive? The dynamics of car manufacturers' differentiation strategies

Hoeft

2021

Strategic Change

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“…Correspondingly, Wells and Nieuwenhuis (2012) argue that the capacity of automotive incumbents to continuously improve their existing technologies and business practices partly explains their reluctance to change. A patent analysis by Song and Aaldering (2019) and a case study of new mobility concepts by Lang and Mohnen (2019) support these arguments.…”

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Conceptualisations of incumbent firms in sustainability transitions: Insights from organisation theory and a systematic literature review

Magnusson

Werner

2022

Bus Strat Env

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Following the tradition of using opposing concepts as a basis for organisational analysis, this article advances a theory‐based understanding of incumbent firms in sustainability transitions. Building on seminal transition studies, we propose innovating/defending and collaborating/competing as two useful spectra to describe organisational behaviours in transitions. Presenting the automotive industry as an explanatory case, we show results from a systematic literature review that reveal motives for diverging behaviours. Combining the spectra into a 2 × 2 matrix, we then introduce four conceptualisations to explain the observed motives and behaviours. The conceptualisations are associated with different streams of organisation theory: dynamic capabilities and the resource‐based view, resource‐dependence theory, neo‐institutional theory and theories on organisational learning and path dependence. Referring to organisational ambidexterity, value configurations and political arenas, we conclude that transitions research can reach a more multifaceted understanding by challenging the prevailing notion of the firm as a coherent actor.

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“…Also, for ICE engines, the average operating energy in kilojoules per passenger-kilometers is approximately 4 times higher than electric vehicles at the same average speed [63]. Being reliable and providing an extended travel range, this non-sustainable transportation solution might still be manufactured for 20 to 30 years in the future [64,65].…”

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Renewability and Robustness Analysis and Review for Sustainable-Technology Propulsion Systems in Modern Transportation Infrastructure Administration

Covaci,

Gălătuș,

Petreuș

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Applied Sciences

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Recently, major climate events highlighted the increasing need to use sustainable technologies in the transportation domain. Energy production infrastructure, storage, and propulsion systems still rely on non-sustainable technology for economic growth. Therefore, this study reviews the modern transportation propulsion systems and transportation infrastructure components, describing the possible outcomes for several future directions based on prototypes and study advances. The in-production vehicles were reviewed for providing immediate, robust, and renewable solutions for the existing non-sustainable transportation infrastructure. The study continues with extended-capability vehicles and their limitations and vulnerability based on the current infrastructural circumstances. An alternative energy transfer infrastructure has been concluded to possibly provide the necessary capabilities to approach a neutral carbon footprint and mitigate ongoing climate adverse events. The hypothetical prototype uses distance energy transfer to bypass the described environmental constraints and provide a direction for achieving a possibly sustainable and economically evolving infrastructure.

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Strategic intentions to the diffusion of electric mobility paradigm: The case of internal combustion engine vehicle

Cited by 28 publications

References 77 publications

Fun to drive? The dynamics of car manufacturers' differentiation strategies

Fun to drive? The dynamics of car manufacturers' differentiation strategies

Conceptualisations of incumbent firms in sustainability transitions: Insights from organisation theory and a systematic literature review

Renewability and Robustness Analysis and Review for Sustainable-Technology Propulsion Systems in Modern Transportation Infrastructure Administration

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