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The adoption of a fully battery-based Electric Vehicles (EVs) in Kuwait apparently seems to be le... more The adoption of a fully battery-based Electric Vehicles (EVs) in Kuwait apparently seems to be less than one percent and hence Kuwait has the lowest indexed-rank among countries around the globe. The absence of fast-charging stations for fully-battery-based EVs and landlords' reluctance to install home fast-charging plugs are the primary reasons for extremely low adoption rates in this country. Because the government of Kuwait is reluctant to give permission for expatriates to own property in Kuwait, fully battery-based EV ownership is restricted to Kuwaiti nationals who reside in their private properties. To accomplish the present objectives, a quantitative de-scriptive method (closed-ended questions) was used to collect data from a sample of 227 Kuwaiti nationals who owned gasoline cars. The finding of the present study indicates that more than half of the participants stated that they preferred to purchase an EVs within the next three years if certain criteria were met, inclu...

Energies

The Middle East, Gulf Cooperation Council Countries (GCC), and Kuwait, in particular, are current... more The Middle East, Gulf Cooperation Council Countries (GCC), and Kuwait, in particular, are currently experiencing a similar transition as the USA in the 1970s regarding the empowerment and independence of women, fueled by a declining birth rate from four per women to less than two. In addition, the percentage of women with university degrees has been increasing at a logarithmic rate every decade since the 1960s in the USA and since 1990 in Kuwait, resulting in women comprising well over half of all university graduates. This has led to women obtaining better jobs and enjoying greater independence to make their own decisions. In the 1960s, Toyota and other Japanese car manufactures used this phenomenon to penetrate the US market, with significant success. Their selling points were lower maintenance requirements, higher reliability, safety, better environment friendliness and slicker interior designs, the last being especially adapted to women’s tastes. We believe that Chinese and Kore...

Gulf Conference on Sustainable Built Environment, 2020

JWEE

Electric Vehicles (EV) is probably the most disruptive and innovative product since the introduct... more Electric Vehicles (EV) is probably the most disruptive and innovative product since the introduction of a smart phone in 2007. However, attitude of women towards (EV) in oil rich and conservative countries like Kuwait has not been explored. The aim of this research is to bridge that gap with this study that employed a quantitative method, that is a questionnaire of 234 women drivers. Results showed that more than half of participated women would buy an EV within the next 3 years, if several conditions were met; including cheaper purchasing pricing with government assistance and availability of suitable infrastructure for EV relating to charging stations, fast lanes, and free parking spaces. More than forty percent of the participants would also seriously start thinking about buying EV if the gas/fuel prices increase between 50% to 199% and thought that EVs are safer in relation to fire and car crashes. Moreover, they would pay 6%-20% more for an EV that is both environmentally frien...

World Electric Vehicle Journal

Ever since the discovery of oil in 1938, the State of Kuwait has increasingly sought out internat... more Ever since the discovery of oil in 1938, the State of Kuwait has increasingly sought out international brands in the car market due to the high purchasing power of Kuwaiti nationals. However, the makers of electric vehicles (EVs) have not been able to penetrate this market, with the exception of innovators and early adopters. The phenomenon in disruptive innovation theory—called “Crossing the Chasm”—regarding a mass market appeal has not yet occurred in Kuwait. Through deep interviews with 12 Kuwaiti owners of EVs and automotive dealers who sold either EVs or Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs), 10 key reasons for this phenomenon have been previously revealed, which were used to develop an extensive questionnaire. A total of 472 car drivers aged from 18 to 30, identified as the “early majority”, completed the questionnaire to achieve the objective of identifying the factors required to create a mass market for EVs in Kuwait. The results demonstrated that potential customers highly prefe...

Sustainability, Sep 26, 2022

MDPI, 2022

This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative... more This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY

Inconel-625 is a nickel-alloy based material with superior properties such as high fatigue streng... more Inconel-625 is a nickel-alloy based material with superior properties such as high fatigue strength, high hardness, and oxidation resistance. These properties make it suitable for applications in marine, aerospace, and power generation industries. Due to its high hardness, the material is difficult to machine by conventional machining methods such as turning, milling or grinding. For this reason, an alternative method known as Wire Electrical Discharge Machining (WEDM) can be adopted for such materials. In this paper, WEDM is optimized through Taguchi optimization technique. Inconel-625 plates of 10 mm thickness were used as specimen in experimental work. For maximum material removal rate (MRR) and minimum surface roughness (SR), it was observed that the optimum pulseon time (TON), wire feed rate (WF), and gap voltage (SV) could be set to 0.4 μs, 10 mm/min and 68 V respectively.

Journal of Economics, Business and Management, 2015

2018 IEEE International Conference on Innovative Research and Development (ICIRD), 2018

e-Health solutions have brought many opportunities to developing countries including Kuwait. E-He... more e-Health solutions have brought many opportunities to developing countries including Kuwait. E-Health solutions have proven quality of health care delivery and services in the industrialized countries. This paper describes a pilot study to present the unbiased empirical evaluation of stakeholder's towards e-health delivery solutions and services in Kuwait. In an effort to catch up with the growth, the developing countries have strived to revolutionize the health care industry by the uses of innovative solutions including mobile computing to educate stakeholders to remain healthy and receive a customized health service. The issues examined include the application of TAM model and Q method frameworks to better understand both negative and positive views of stakeholders' adoption factors. The present research indicated that the perceived security risk was the least obstacle. Accordingly usefulness and ease of use domains are the most apparent significant elements for the escala...

Information Systems Foundations: Theory Building in Information Systems

Australasian Journal of Information Systems, 2012

The automotive industry is at a crossroad. Electric Vehicles (EV) now pose an existential threat ... more The automotive industry is at a crossroad. Electric Vehicles (EV) now pose an existential threat to the Internal Combustion Engine (ICE). In some Northern European nations over 50% of new cars sold are EVs, owing in large part to substantial financial incentives to buy and own an EV, such as tax discounts when purchasing an EV, fuel savings, and preferential use of transportation infrastructure. These countries have pledged to cease all imports of non-EVs by 2035. On the other end of the spectrum are Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, where EVs account for less than 1 percent of vehicles on the road, due in large part to financial and non-financial impediments to buying and owning an EV. In addition, the price per kilometer driven in the GCC is considerably lower with gasoline than with electricity, which contradicts the European experience where cost savings from electricity versus gasoline can be around 8 to 1. Furthermore, as there is an absence of purchase and ownership/utilization taxation of vehicles in the GCC, no tax discount can be levied, in contrast to the EV tax incentives common in Europe. This paper explores which qualities of driving and owning an EV in the GCC are necessary to persuade certain kinds of new automobile consumers to pay a higher purchasing price for owning an EV as opposed to an ICE, in spite of higher costs for electricity compared to gasoline per kilometer driven. This pilot study attempts to provide an insight to new car purchasing behavior among consumers in Kuwait via a qualitative innovative approach known as 'Q Methodology'. Interestingly, the factors that emerged from the research represent three subjective perspectives of new car purchase in Kuwait which were labeled as Factor 1, 'Value Seeker'; Factor 2, 'Safety Seeker'; and Factor 3, 'Performance Seeker'. The study concludes that given financial constraints, the 'Value Seeker' group is not likely to become an early adopter of EVs in the GCC region. Conversely, the 'Performance Seeker', which includes mainly younger men who are more likely to view the fast acceleration of EVs as a deciding factor, and the 'Safety Seekers', who are mainly younger women who would value the environmental aspects of EVs as well as the quiet driving experience and low maintenance requirements are determining factors for EV adoption in the GCC region in the future.

Research Online is the open access institutional repository for the

Businesses sustainable strategies in practice: the

While the Internet provides many opportunities for increased levels of care and access to informa... more While the Internet provides many opportunities for increased levels of care and access to information services in the area of public health, many web designers are not yet taking full advantage of its potential. This study looks at Intensive Care and Palliative Care, as important instances where health informatics could improve public web-based services, in meeting the particular information needs of family members of critically and chronically ill patients. This study is significant in adopting an approach to the usability testing of websites based on concepts from Activity Theory. This takes a realistic and practical approach, which identifies the purpose of the web-site from an end-user perspective and then tests it in situations which simulate typical real-life activities of the user. The results of this work indicate that, with current website designs, face-to-face communication is still the preferred means to fulfil the public’s need for health information when family members ...

2018 IEEE International Conference on Innovative Research and Development (ICIRD), 2018

e-Health solutions have brought many opportunities to developing countries including Kuwait. E-He... more e-Health solutions have brought many opportunities to developing countries including Kuwait. E-Health solutions have proven quality of health care delivery and services in the industrialized countries. This paper describes a pilot study to present the unbiased empirical evaluation of stakeholder's towards e-health delivery solutions and services in Kuwait. In an effort to catch up with the growth, the developing countries have strived to revolutionize the health care industry by the uses of innovative solutions including mobile computing to educate stakeholders to remain healthy and receive a customized health service. The issues examined include the application of TAM model and Q method frameworks to better understand both negative and positive views of stakeholders' adoption factors. The present research indicated that the perceived security risk was the least obstacle. Accordingly usefulness and ease of use domains are the most apparent significant elements for the escala...

2018 International Conference on Smart Computing and Electronic Enterprise (ICSCEE), 2018

this study explores knowledge management within an Australian healthcare arena. The healthcare se... more this study explores knowledge management within an Australian healthcare arena. The healthcare sector is the knowledge-based profession. It is an immature arena of researchand hence needs to be researched by empirical research and theoretical constructs. Given the multifaceted arena of the healthcare sector, there is still an escalating obstacle of understanding the mode of knowledge management in the healthcare arena. The paper explains the application of Q method as a cohesive and applied method to the knowledgecreation, sharing and storing within organizational health arena. The study proposed knowledge management as a theoretical construct to implement the knowledge-based approach to improve the decision-making process.

The adoption of a fully battery-based Electric Vehicles (EVs) in Kuwait apparently seems to be le... more The adoption of a fully battery-based Electric Vehicles (EVs) in Kuwait apparently seems to be less than one percent and hence Kuwait has the lowest indexed-rank among countries around the globe. The absence of fast-charging stations for fully-battery-based EVs and landlords' reluctance to install home fast-charging plugs are the primary reasons for extremely low adoption rates in this country. Because the government of Kuwait is reluctant to give permission for expatriates to own property in Kuwait, fully battery-based EV ownership is restricted to Kuwaiti nationals who reside in their private properties. To accomplish the present objectives, a quantitative de-scriptive method (closed-ended questions) was used to collect data from a sample of 227 Kuwaiti nationals who owned gasoline cars. The finding of the present study indicates that more than half of the participants stated that they preferred to purchase an EVs within the next three years if certain criteria were met, inclu...

Energies

The Middle East, Gulf Cooperation Council Countries (GCC), and Kuwait, in particular, are current... more The Middle East, Gulf Cooperation Council Countries (GCC), and Kuwait, in particular, are currently experiencing a similar transition as the USA in the 1970s regarding the empowerment and independence of women, fueled by a declining birth rate from four per women to less than two. In addition, the percentage of women with university degrees has been increasing at a logarithmic rate every decade since the 1960s in the USA and since 1990 in Kuwait, resulting in women comprising well over half of all university graduates. This has led to women obtaining better jobs and enjoying greater independence to make their own decisions. In the 1960s, Toyota and other Japanese car manufactures used this phenomenon to penetrate the US market, with significant success. Their selling points were lower maintenance requirements, higher reliability, safety, better environment friendliness and slicker interior designs, the last being especially adapted to women’s tastes. We believe that Chinese and Kore...

Gulf Conference on Sustainable Built Environment, 2020

JWEE

Electric Vehicles (EV) is probably the most disruptive and innovative product since the introduct... more Electric Vehicles (EV) is probably the most disruptive and innovative product since the introduction of a smart phone in 2007. However, attitude of women towards (EV) in oil rich and conservative countries like Kuwait has not been explored. The aim of this research is to bridge that gap with this study that employed a quantitative method, that is a questionnaire of 234 women drivers. Results showed that more than half of participated women would buy an EV within the next 3 years, if several conditions were met; including cheaper purchasing pricing with government assistance and availability of suitable infrastructure for EV relating to charging stations, fast lanes, and free parking spaces. More than forty percent of the participants would also seriously start thinking about buying EV if the gas/fuel prices increase between 50% to 199% and thought that EVs are safer in relation to fire and car crashes. Moreover, they would pay 6%-20% more for an EV that is both environmentally frien...

World Electric Vehicle Journal

Ever since the discovery of oil in 1938, the State of Kuwait has increasingly sought out internat... more Ever since the discovery of oil in 1938, the State of Kuwait has increasingly sought out international brands in the car market due to the high purchasing power of Kuwaiti nationals. However, the makers of electric vehicles (EVs) have not been able to penetrate this market, with the exception of innovators and early adopters. The phenomenon in disruptive innovation theory—called “Crossing the Chasm”—regarding a mass market appeal has not yet occurred in Kuwait. Through deep interviews with 12 Kuwaiti owners of EVs and automotive dealers who sold either EVs or Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs), 10 key reasons for this phenomenon have been previously revealed, which were used to develop an extensive questionnaire. A total of 472 car drivers aged from 18 to 30, identified as the “early majority”, completed the questionnaire to achieve the objective of identifying the factors required to create a mass market for EVs in Kuwait. The results demonstrated that potential customers highly prefe...

Sustainability, Sep 26, 2022

MDPI, 2022

This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative... more This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY

Inconel-625 is a nickel-alloy based material with superior properties such as high fatigue streng... more Inconel-625 is a nickel-alloy based material with superior properties such as high fatigue strength, high hardness, and oxidation resistance. These properties make it suitable for applications in marine, aerospace, and power generation industries. Due to its high hardness, the material is difficult to machine by conventional machining methods such as turning, milling or grinding. For this reason, an alternative method known as Wire Electrical Discharge Machining (WEDM) can be adopted for such materials. In this paper, WEDM is optimized through Taguchi optimization technique. Inconel-625 plates of 10 mm thickness were used as specimen in experimental work. For maximum material removal rate (MRR) and minimum surface roughness (SR), it was observed that the optimum pulseon time (TON), wire feed rate (WF), and gap voltage (SV) could be set to 0.4 μs, 10 mm/min and 68 V respectively.

Journal of Economics, Business and Management, 2015

2018 IEEE International Conference on Innovative Research and Development (ICIRD), 2018

e-Health solutions have brought many opportunities to developing countries including Kuwait. E-He... more e-Health solutions have brought many opportunities to developing countries including Kuwait. E-Health solutions have proven quality of health care delivery and services in the industrialized countries. This paper describes a pilot study to present the unbiased empirical evaluation of stakeholder's towards e-health delivery solutions and services in Kuwait. In an effort to catch up with the growth, the developing countries have strived to revolutionize the health care industry by the uses of innovative solutions including mobile computing to educate stakeholders to remain healthy and receive a customized health service. The issues examined include the application of TAM model and Q method frameworks to better understand both negative and positive views of stakeholders' adoption factors. The present research indicated that the perceived security risk was the least obstacle. Accordingly usefulness and ease of use domains are the most apparent significant elements for the escala...

Information Systems Foundations: Theory Building in Information Systems

Australasian Journal of Information Systems, 2012

The automotive industry is at a crossroad. Electric Vehicles (EV) now pose an existential threat ... more The automotive industry is at a crossroad. Electric Vehicles (EV) now pose an existential threat to the Internal Combustion Engine (ICE). In some Northern European nations over 50% of new cars sold are EVs, owing in large part to substantial financial incentives to buy and own an EV, such as tax discounts when purchasing an EV, fuel savings, and preferential use of transportation infrastructure. These countries have pledged to cease all imports of non-EVs by 2035. On the other end of the spectrum are Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, where EVs account for less than 1 percent of vehicles on the road, due in large part to financial and non-financial impediments to buying and owning an EV. In addition, the price per kilometer driven in the GCC is considerably lower with gasoline than with electricity, which contradicts the European experience where cost savings from electricity versus gasoline can be around 8 to 1. Furthermore, as there is an absence of purchase and ownership/utilization taxation of vehicles in the GCC, no tax discount can be levied, in contrast to the EV tax incentives common in Europe. This paper explores which qualities of driving and owning an EV in the GCC are necessary to persuade certain kinds of new automobile consumers to pay a higher purchasing price for owning an EV as opposed to an ICE, in spite of higher costs for electricity compared to gasoline per kilometer driven. This pilot study attempts to provide an insight to new car purchasing behavior among consumers in Kuwait via a qualitative innovative approach known as 'Q Methodology'. Interestingly, the factors that emerged from the research represent three subjective perspectives of new car purchase in Kuwait which were labeled as Factor 1, 'Value Seeker'; Factor 2, 'Safety Seeker'; and Factor 3, 'Performance Seeker'. The study concludes that given financial constraints, the 'Value Seeker' group is not likely to become an early adopter of EVs in the GCC region. Conversely, the 'Performance Seeker', which includes mainly younger men who are more likely to view the fast acceleration of EVs as a deciding factor, and the 'Safety Seekers', who are mainly younger women who would value the environmental aspects of EVs as well as the quiet driving experience and low maintenance requirements are determining factors for EV adoption in the GCC region in the future.

Research Online is the open access institutional repository for the

Businesses sustainable strategies in practice: the

While the Internet provides many opportunities for increased levels of care and access to informa... more While the Internet provides many opportunities for increased levels of care and access to information services in the area of public health, many web designers are not yet taking full advantage of its potential. This study looks at Intensive Care and Palliative Care, as important instances where health informatics could improve public web-based services, in meeting the particular information needs of family members of critically and chronically ill patients. This study is significant in adopting an approach to the usability testing of websites based on concepts from Activity Theory. This takes a realistic and practical approach, which identifies the purpose of the web-site from an end-user perspective and then tests it in situations which simulate typical real-life activities of the user. The results of this work indicate that, with current website designs, face-to-face communication is still the preferred means to fulfil the public’s need for health information when family members ...

2018 IEEE International Conference on Innovative Research and Development (ICIRD), 2018

e-Health solutions have brought many opportunities to developing countries including Kuwait. E-He... more e-Health solutions have brought many opportunities to developing countries including Kuwait. E-Health solutions have proven quality of health care delivery and services in the industrialized countries. This paper describes a pilot study to present the unbiased empirical evaluation of stakeholder's towards e-health delivery solutions and services in Kuwait. In an effort to catch up with the growth, the developing countries have strived to revolutionize the health care industry by the uses of innovative solutions including mobile computing to educate stakeholders to remain healthy and receive a customized health service. The issues examined include the application of TAM model and Q method frameworks to better understand both negative and positive views of stakeholders' adoption factors. The present research indicated that the perceived security risk was the least obstacle. Accordingly usefulness and ease of use domains are the most apparent significant elements for the escala...

2018 International Conference on Smart Computing and Electronic Enterprise (ICSCEE), 2018

this study explores knowledge management within an Australian healthcare arena. The healthcare se... more this study explores knowledge management within an Australian healthcare arena. The healthcare sector is the knowledge-based profession. It is an immature arena of researchand hence needs to be researched by empirical research and theoretical constructs. Given the multifaceted arena of the healthcare sector, there is still an escalating obstacle of understanding the mode of knowledge management in the healthcare arena. The paper explains the application of Q method as a cohesive and applied method to the knowledgecreation, sharing and storing within organizational health arena. The study proposed knowledge management as a theoretical construct to implement the knowledge-based approach to improve the decision-making process.