E-Vehicles as a Sustainability-Tool: Exploring the Awareness, Perceptions and Purchase-Intentions of Potential Consumers

Global warming is a significant problem in this era, and traditional fuel vehicles are polluting the environment. Our natural resources have been depleting very fast in the past decades, and there should be a solution to all these problems. So, there is a need to shift from traditional fuel vehicles to e-vehicles. The research aimed to explore the awareness, intention, and perception of consumers regarding e-vehicles in creating a Sustainable Supply Chain (SSC) in the select automobile industry of India. To investigate the objectives of this study, a structured questionnaire was distributed online for which 78 responses were received. Based on the analysis of the responses carried out by using MS Excel and SPSS through the creation of tables and charts, it was discovered that the majority of the respondents believe that evehicles help in creating a SSC in the Indian automobile industry. Further, the regression analysis findings revealed that there is a positive and significant relationship between consumers' awareness and perceptions regarding E-vehicles creating a SSC and their intentions to buy an e-vehicle in the Indian Automobile industry.