Consumer Responses to Electric Vehicles Literature Review (original) (raw)
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A review of consumer preferences of and interactions with electric vehicle charging infrastructure
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Consumer preferences for electric vehicles: a literature review
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Intent to purchase a plug-in electric vehicle: A survey of early impressions in large US cites
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International Journal for Research in Applied Science & Engineering Technology, 2022
Electric Vehicles have advanced significantly in quite your time, owing partially to decreasing battery costs. Yet EVs Abstract remain more costly than gasoline fueled vehicles over their useful life .This research paper analyzes the additional advances which can be needed ,if electric vehicles are to significantly penetrate the passenger vehicle fleet during this low pricing market. This has further been divided into 3sub parts: 1) Battery Prices 2) Will Declining Battery Costs Make EVs competitive? 3) EV's Charging Infrastructure challenges Battery Prices-Cell costs have fell down drastically to 100kwhor7500RSapproximatelyorlowerandareevenexpectedtocontinuefallingwithtechnologicalimprovementsandreturnstolarge−scaleproduction.Whilecellsarejustonecomponentofthevalueofaninstalledbattery,thepriceofinstalledbattery,thevalueofinstalledbatterieshasdeclinedfromaround100 kwh or 7500RS approximately or lower and are even expected to continue falling with technological improvements and returns to large-scale production. While cells are just one component of the value of an installed battery, the price of installed battery, the value of installed batteries has declined from around 100kwhor7500RSapproximatelyorlowerandareevenexpectedtocontinuefallingwithtechnologicalimprovementsandreturnstolarge−scaleproduction.Whilecellsarejustonecomponentofthevalueofaninstalledbattery,thepriceofinstalledbattery,thevalueofinstalledbatterieshasdeclinedfromaround1000 per kwh in 2010 to an estimated $250-350 per kwh in 2018.Total Battery costs are falling more slowly as consumers demand EVs with longer ranges and thus larger batteries. Meanwhile, governments are finding it difficult to fiscally justify large subsidies to draw in buyers.