How much Polish consumers know about alternative fuel vehicles?

Anna Kowalska-Pyzalska, Marek Kott and Joanna Kott ()

No WORMS/20/14, WORking papers in Management Science (WORMS) from Department of Operations Research and Business Intelligence, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology

Abstract: Limited consumer knowledge reduces the chances of spread of alternative fuel vehicle (AFV). In our empirical survey conducted in the first quarter of 2020 among 1002 Poles planning to buy a car in the next 12 months or who have just bought it, we examine what socio-economic and attitudinal factors influence their knowledge about AFV. We explore how the understanding of the differences between HEV, PHEV and BEV, and brand recognition are associated with the consumers’ socio-economic attributes and a general interest in automotive technologies. To the best our knowledge this is the unique study among consumers of Central and Eastern Europe, characterized by lower exposure to AFV and lower purchasing power. Our results indicate that men, living in larger cities, with higher education and interest in modern automotive technologies are predominated to have higher AFV knowledge and are more probable to buy such a car in the future.

Keywords: Knowledge; E-mobility; Electric vehicles; Plug-in electric vehicles; Hybrid electric vehicles; Consumers; Telephone survey (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C80 C93 D80 L91 L94 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2020-08-25
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Forthcoming in Transportation Research Part D, submitted in June, 2020

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