They can be grouped into attitudinal, experimental, preference valuation and other studies.
Only recently, European studies have gained in number, especially in the field of attitudinal surveys and preference valuation techniques.
Research from the 80s and 90s was mainly carried out in California and applied preference valuation techniques and experimental designs to elicit consumer preferences for EVs.
Preference valuation studies are another technique to analyse the potential demand for environmental goods or services which are usually not traded within the market mechanism.
The majority of the collected articles applied preference valuation techniques (27), followed by attitudinal surveys (14), experimental designs (8) and others (4).
A comprehensive review of research is performed under different conceptual frameworks and research methodologies: attitudinal, experimental, preference valuation studies and others.
Table 5 Reviewed preference valuation studies Study Scope Attributes Method Findings Location Beggs and Cardell [13] EV Price, operating cost, range, recharging time, performance, size and air conditioning.
The reviewed preference valuation studies unveiled that environmental benefits are of minor importance for the adoption of AFVs, which is principally driven by price characteristics, performance and convenience attributes.
This paper presents an application of a stated preference valuation approach aimed at evaluating the social preferences of the population of the Basque Country, Spain, for the key attributes of a regional Natura 2000 network site.
In February 2012, the preference valuation for the Canadian public became available [ 43].
