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Boosting green cars retail in Malaysia: The influence of conditional value on consumers behaviour

  • ALGANAD, Amr Mohammed Nasser;ISA, Normalisa Md;FAUZI, Waida Irani Mohd
    • Journal of Distribution Science
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    • v.19 no.7
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    • pp.87-100
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    • 2021
  • Purpose: This paper examined the role of conditional value in the green automotive industry. The relationships of conditional value's four factors, consumers' attitudes and consumers' intention to purchase green cars were investigated. The conditional value was extended by examining the effect of fuel prices. Research design, data, and methodology: This study is quantitatively designed. All variables were measured using a 7-point Likert-scale; 425 questionnaires were collected from the respondents in Malaysia. SmartPLS was utilized to examine the proposed nine hypotheses. Result: The results demonstrate a positive relationship between attitude and intention toward green cars. Additionally, the results of the relationships were as follows: fuel prices was the most significant predictor of Malaysian consumers' attitudes and consumers' intention to purchase green cars, followed by environmental consequences and government policy. However, retail sales promotions did not show a significant effect on both consumers' attitudes and intentions. Conclusion: The study's findings suggest that the Malaysian government should implement an integrated package that includes a fuel pricing policy that restricts the purchase of non-green cars, as well as a set of financial incentives for purchasing green cars. Moreover, it is valuable to conduct public awareness campaigns about the negative consequences of current consumption patterns.

R&D Technology and Dissemination Policy and of FCEV (수소전기차 기술 개발 및 보급 정책 동향)

  • Kim, Myong-Hwan
    • Prospectives of Industrial Chemistry
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    • v.24 no.4
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    • pp.22-35
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    • 2021
  • 현재 수소전기차는 승용 및 상용 등 다양한 모빌리티 분야에서 전 세계적으로 이슈가 되고 있다. 환경규제 강화, 신기후체제 출범 등의 변화의 물결에 따라 자동차산업의 패러다임이 친환경으로 전환되고 있으며, 세계적으로 관련 기술 개발 및 보급을 위한 확대 정책이 발표되고 있다. 1990년 초 수소전기차(Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle, FCEV) 기술 개발이 진행되어 1994년 독일 다임러사가 세계 최초로 NECAR1을 개발하였다. 이후 많은 완성차가 상용화를 위해 기술개발이 진행되었으며, 2013년 국내 현대차가 세계최초로 양산차인 투싼 ix 수소전기차를 출시하였다. 1년 이후 다시 일본 도요타에서 세계 최초로 전용 차체를 적용한 미라이 수소전기차가 출시되면서 초기시장이 형성되었으며, 이후 현대차는 NEXO를 2018년에 발표하였다. 전 세계적으로 가장 많이 팔린 수소전기차에 해당된다. 2021년 미라이 2세대가 더욱 진보된 기술을 바탕으로 출시되었으며, 국내 현대차에서도 2세대 수소전기차 출시를 앞두고 있다. 또한 수소승용차 뿐만 아니라 수소상용차 시장이 뜨겁게 부각되고 있으며, 각국에서 수소상용차 기술개발을 진행하고 있다. 본 기획특집에서는 각국의 수소전기차 기술개발 및 보급 정책을 소개하고 국내 기술개발 및 보급 정책의 타당성을 확인하고자 하였다.

A Study of Panel Denting (판넬의 덴팅에 관한 연구)

  • Jung, Dong-Won
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2001.06c
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    • pp.610-615
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    • 2001
  • In the interest of improved automotive fuel economy, one solution is reducing vehicle weight. Achieving significant weight reductions will normally require reducing the panel thickness or using alternative materials such as aluminum alloy sheet. These changes will affect the dent resistance of the panel. In this study, the correlation between panel size, curvature, thickness, material properties and dent resistance is investigated. A parametric approach is adopted, utilizing a "design software" tool incorporating empirical equations to predict denting and panel stiffness for simplified panels. The developed design program can be used to minimize panel thickness or compare different materials, while maintaining adequate panel performance.

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Evaluation of joining strength of aluminum joining methods (알루미늄 결합법들의 결합 강도 평가)

  • 이명한;박영배;김헌영;오수익
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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    • 2003.05a
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    • pp.152-155
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    • 2003
  • The automotive industry is currently trying to develop light- weight vehicle for both improvement of fuel efficiency and reduction of environmental pollution. For the reduction of vehicle weight, the substitution of aluminum for steel has been increased. However, the change of material causes a significant problem with respect to the method of joining. In this paper, strength of several aluminum joining methods such as spot welding, metal insert gas(MIG) welding, adhesive bonding was evaluated by performing lap test.

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Development of Fuel Pump Lower Housing for Ethanol Engine (에탄올엔진용 연료펌프 하우징 개발)

  • Lee, Byeong-Hoon;Kim, Chang-Su;Sin, Kyeong-Sick;Park, Sung-Young
    • Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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    • 2011.12b
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    • pp.521-524
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    • 2011
  • 본 논문에서는 냉간단조된 연료펌프와 다이캐스팅된 연료펌프에 대한 성능 실험을 수행하였다. 수행결과 냉간단조와 다이캐스팅으로 가공된 하부하우징으로 제작된 연료펌프는 회전수마다 미미한 차이를 보이지만, 전체적으로 동등한 성능을 보이고 있다.

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Characteristics of fuel economy and emissions of hybrid vehicles (하이브리드자동차의 연비 및 배출가스 특성에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Jong-Woo
    • Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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    • 2011.05b
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    • pp.749-752
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    • 2011
  • 본 논문에서는 현재 출시되어 있는 소프트타입의 현대 아반테 하이브리드자동차와 하드타입 방식의 도요다 프리우스 자동차를 대상으로 차대 동력계상에서 CVS-75 모드를 주행하면서 발생하는 배출가스특성과 연비특성을 실험적으로 분석하였다. 가솔린 차량에 비해 하이브리드 차량의 연비 및 배출가스 특성이 탁월하였으며 특히, 하드타입의 하이브리드 차량이 소프트타입의 차량에 비해 연비개선효과가 우수하게 나타났다.

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Trend of the Recent Technology for the Vehicle with Motor Power Train (최근의 전동기 구동시스템을 가진 자동차의 기술개발 추이)

  • Ha, Hoi-Doo
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2000.07b
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    • pp.1027-1029
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    • 2000
  • Electric vehicle(EV), hybrid electric vehicle(HEV) and fuel cell electric vehicle(FEV) are seen as one way of reducing the harmful effects of traffic and of improving energy efficiency. Therefore the status and developing trend of the EV, HEV and FEV are given in this paper. A major aspect of alternative drive trains is the electric drive train. The automotive aspect in developing electric drive trains is emphasized.

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Compressed Natural Gas Bus & Liquefied Petroleum Gas Vehicle (압축천연가스(CNG)버스와 액화석유가스(LPG)자동차)

  • 윤재건
    • Journal of the Korean Professional Engineers Association
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    • v.34 no.3
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    • pp.28-32
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    • 2001
  • Using the CNG(compressed natural gas) and LPG(liquified petroleum gas) as the automotive fuel will be expanded because of their clean effect to the environmental air qualify. But these programs of gas using expansion would have a difficulty due to public consideration of gas utilities as a big hazard. The Ministry of Environment has an ambitious plan to substitute more than 25,000 buses with CNG and ensure more than 200 CNG refueling stations as well by the year of 2007. However, it is very difficult to establish new CNG and LPG refueling stations because of expanded safety distance than ever before by several major explosion accidents.

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Study on the Spray Control of Mixed Fuel Using Flash Boiling (감압비등을 이용한 혼합연료의 분무제어에 관한 연구)

  • Myong, Kwang-Jae;Yoon, Jun-Kyu
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.34 no.11
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    • pp.1005-1013
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    • 2010
  • This study was conducted to assess the spray control of flash boiling with mixed fuel in consideration of HCCI (Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition) engine condition. Mixed fuel existing in two phase regions can control the process of mixture formation under low temperature and density by using the spray resulting from flash boiling which is able to induce rapid evaporation of fuel spray as well as the evaporation of high boiling point component. Because HCCI engine injects the fuel early under ambient conditions, it can facilitate the chemical control of ignition combustion and physical control such as breakup and atomization of liquid fuel by flash boiling of mixed fuel which consists of highly ignitable light oil and highly volatile gasoline. This study was conducted by performing video processing after selected composition and molar fraction of the mixed fuel as major parameters and photographed Schlieren image and Mie scattered light corresponding to the flash boiling phenomenon of the fuel spray that was injected inside a constant volume vessel. It was found that flash boiling causes significant changes in the spray structure under relatively low temperature and density. Thus, we analyzed that the flash boiling spray can be used for HCCI combustion by controlling the mixture formation at the early fuel injection timing.