Existing research on environmental, ethical and social consumer behavior has focused on proenvironmentaland pro-social attitudes but less on marketing factors such as opinion leadership and opinion seeking. In contrast, the main aim here is to analyze how non-adopters, potential adopters and early adopters of electric vehicles (EVs) differ concerning traditional environmental psychology attitudinal factors and opinion leadership/seeking. Data from a questionnaire survey is used (N = 1,192). Results show significant differences between the groups and that early adopters exhibit opinion leadership traits as well as more pro-environmental personal norms. Implications of these and other findings are discussed.
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