{"id":82180,"date":"2018-08-29T08:02:22","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T15:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/study-identifies-distinct-groups-interested-in-types-of-electric-vehicles"},"modified":"2018-08-29T08:02:22","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T15:02:22","slug":"study-identifies-distinct-groups-interested-in-types-of-electric-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/study-identifies-distinct-groups-interested-in-types-of-electric-vehicles","title":{"rendered":"Study identifies distinct groups interested in types of electric vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-identifies-distinct-groups-interested-in-types-of-electric-vehicles.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Drivers considering plug-in hybrid vehicles with a gasoline backup are most interested in economic benefits while those gravitating toward battery-electric vehicles have stronger environmental concerns, according to a study led by a University of Kansas transportation policy scholar.<\/p>\n<p>The research has identified distinct profiles of people considering newer electric vehicle technologies showing the two types of vehicles\u2014one that offers gasoline as a safety net and another that relies solely on battery charging\u2014are very different in the eyes of consumers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur findings inform the misconception and show that electric vehicles are not a homogeneous entity,\u201d said the study\u2019s lead author Bradley Lane, associate professor in the KU School of Public Affairs &amp; Administration. \u201cThere are distinctive profiles of potential users for whom a plug-in hybrid is attractive and another for whom a battery electric is attractive. And these are two very distinct groups, similar to how there is a group of users who are attracted to a sport-utility vehicle and a separate group attracted to an economy car. We have shed more light on what factors influence how people make these decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-08-distinct-groups-electric-vehicles.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;08-distinct-groups-electric-vehicles.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drivers considering plug-in hybrid vehicles with a gasoline backup are most interested in economic benefits while those gravitating toward battery-electric vehicles have stronger environmental concerns, according to a study led by a University of Kansas transportation policy scholar. The research has identified distinct profiles of people considering newer electric vehicle technologies showing the two types [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,31,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-policy","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}