Policies for Promotion of Electric Vehicles and Factors Influencing Consumers’ Purchasing Decisions of Low Emission Vehicles

• Main Authors: Matjaz Knez, Matevz Obrecht
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: SDEWES Centre 2017-06-01
• Series: Journal of Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems
• Subjects: Low emission vehicles; Electric vehicles; Slovenia; Promotional policies; Purchasing behaviour; Consumer segmentation.
• Online Access: http://www.sdewes.org/jsdewes/pid5.0139

Recently different studies of green transport have become interesting for policy makers,car manufacturers, customers and energy suppliers. Many stakeholders from the publicand private sectors are investing a lot of effort to identify consumer behaviour for futureimprovements in development of green products and effective strategies, which couldaccelerate the transition to sustainable future. This paper presents the effects of electricvehicle promotional policies and customer preferences about alternative fuel vehicles.This study has shown that the electric vehicle promotional policies adopted in Sloveniahave been unsuccessful, as the share of first-time registered electric vehicles in 2013 wasbelow 1%. For different segments of people whose opinions about low emission vehiclesdiffer, different measures must be adopted. When designing promotional policies focusmust be on the most relevant factors such as the total vehicle price and fuel economy.