Abstract:
Increasing awareness about global warming, and the unsteadiness of oil prices has increased interest in sustainable transportation among consumers as well as researchers. Electric vehicles (EVs) are considered as one of
the sustainable road transportations for coping with these challenges. This paper presents a study of the
economical, technical, social & attitudinal, infrastructural, and policy and regulatory barriers to the adoption of
EVs within an Indian context. Additionally, the study also considered different stakeholders’ perspectives on
adopting EVs. Various stakeholders viz. consumers/public, businesses, governments, and the scientific community will boost the supply and demand of EVs. All stakeholders’ coordinated efforts are creating the
groundwork for a stronger EV environment, which will result in increasing acceptability. This study aims to
identify the significant barriers to EV adoption. Based on an extensive literature review first, we identified the
various barriers, and after that, we prioritized the identified barriers through the Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy
Process (FAHP). FAHP is employed to study the relevance and prioritize the barriers with the help of expert
opinions from different stakeholders. The results strongly suggest that a technical barrier is the most critical one
among all the stakeholders. The ranking of EV barriers provides a decision-making framework for managers and
experts to pay more attention to the critical barriers/sub-barriers in order to eradicate them from the system for
the successful adoption of EVs. It recognizes the value of a robust theoretical contribution to the area and intends
to investigate theories or models that might offer a more solid foundation for the study in order to support the
theoretical framework of this research. The study provides a stronger rationale for the research’s importance and
potential impact by introducing a comprehensive theoretical framework.
Description:
Research in Transportation Business & Management, Pratima Verma ( Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, Kozhikode, India), Bhawana Rathore (Operations Management Area, Indian Institute of Management Sambalpur, Sambalpur, India), Vimal Ramesh Kumar (Chaoyang University of Technology, Taichung, Taiwan), Rohit Gupta (Operations Management Area, Indian Institute of Management Sambalpur, Sambalpur, India
), Surajit Bag (Excelia Business School, La Rochelle, France), Konstantinos P. Tagarakis (School of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete, Chania 73100, Greece),
DOI: 10.1016/j.rtbm.2023.101090
