Charged up with peace in mind: Unraveling the factors of range anxiety among norwegian electric vehicle drivers

IF 3.5 2区工程技术 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED

Transportation Research Part F-Traffic Psychology and Behaviour Pub Date : 2025-02-10 DOI:10.1016/j.trf.2025.02.006

Junianna Zatsarnaja , Katharina Reiter , Milad Mehdizadeh , Alim Nayum , Trond Nordfjærn

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Abstract

Range anxiety and its associated factors are crucial for designing effective solutions to enhance the Electric Vehicle (EV) user experience. The present study is based on a survey of 1,005 EV drivers in Norway. It aims to provide insights into the perception of range anxiety in a country with well-developed electric mobility. We contribute to the state-of-the-art by exploring the concept of range anxiety based on eleven potential explanatory variables describing EV adopters’ driving experience, charging-related user experience, psychological characteristics, and socio-demographics. Our analysis showed that the longer the EV driving experience, the greater the perceived ease of charging and charging flexibility, the lower the range anxiety will be. Further, stronger control beliefs over EV’s charging state and willingness to take risks relate to lower range anxiety. Additionally, being younger and being female are associated with lower range anxiety among EV drivers. However, perceived helpfulness of charging guidance, technology openness, and settlement size of EV drivers are not significantly associated with range anxiety. Our study highlights the importance of providing situation- and user-oriented charging information, a smooth and easy-to-understand charging process, and the need to support EV drivers who are less experienced, older, and routine-based.

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Transportation Research Part F-Traffic Psychology and Behaviour Multiple-

CiteScore

7.60

自引率

14.60%

发文量

239

审稿时长

71 days

期刊介绍： Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour focuses on the behavioural and psychological aspects of traffic and transport. The aim of the journal is to enhance theory development, improve the quality of empirical studies and to stimulate the application of research findings in practice. TRF provides a focus and a means of communication for the considerable amount of research activities that are now being carried out in this field. The journal provides a forum for transportation researchers, psychologists, ergonomists, engineers and policy-makers with an interest in traffic and transport psychology.