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Landscape Analysis: The Electric Car (Is It a Viable Alternative?)

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Cleaner air, renewable energy, and domestic energy use are the primary reasons to drive electric cars.

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank John MacArthur, Research Associate at Portland State University, for answering our questions on battery electric vehicles and giving guidance for next steps in the early stage of the research project.

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  1. Daimler, Stuttgart, Germany

    Henry Janzen

  2. Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA

    Deepak Yasaswi Kancherla, Sridhar Paneerselvam, Shiva Ram Reddy & Tugrul U. Daim

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Engineering and Technology Management, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, USA

    Tugrul U. Daim

  2. School of Business, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington, USA

    Leong Chan

  3. Bonneville Power Administration, Portland, Oregon, USA

    Judith Estep

Appendices

Appendix A

Comparison of acquisition cost of electric vehicles and Honda Civic LX

Vehicle name

Price ($)

EMW i3

42,300

Chevrolet Spark EV

27,500

Ford Focus Electric

36,000

Mitsubishi i-MiEV

23,800

Smart Electric Drive

25,700

Tesla Model S

81,000

Toyota RAV4 EV

50,700

Mercedes B-Class Electric Drive

42,400

Fiat 500e

32,600

Kia Soul EV

34,500

Tesla Model X

80,000

Volkswagen e-Golf

36,300

Nissan LEAF

29,800

Average EV cost (ex Tesla)

38,467

Honda Civic LX

18,490

Appendix B

The NHTS was originally the National Personal Transportation Survey (NPTS), which conducted its first survey of US transportation behavior in 1969. In 2000 the NPTS combined its survey efforts with American Travel Survey and changed the name to National Household Travel Survey. The 2009 NHTS included 150,000 households and 300,000 people representing a cross section of the USA.

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Janzen, H., Kancherla, D.Y., Paneerselvam, S., Reddy, S.R., Daim, T.U. (2018). Landscape Analysis: The Electric Car (Is It a Viable Alternative?). In: Daim, T., Chan, L., Estep, J. (eds) Infrastructure and Technology Management. Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68987-6_10

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