A team of researchers at Xiamen University in China has examined the factors influencing electric vehicle uptake in major Chinese cities. Boqiang Lin and Wei Wu have put forward an electric vehicle purchasing intention model based on a review of the literature and their survey in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. They conclude, based on their analysis of their data, that attitude factors such as network externality, price acceptability, government subsidies, vehicle performance, concerns about smog, and demographic characteristics such as gender, age and marital status have significant impacts on respondents’ willingness to purchase electric vehicles. Their paper appears in the journal Energy Policy . China has become a behemoth in the global auto market—and it continues to grow. Vehicle ownership in China has surged more than 100 times to almost 200 million owners since 1980, while the population has “only” increased 40% to about 1.4 billion during the […]