Alternative Fuels: Initial Survey

When using your primary vehicle, how frequently do you typically fuel at a gas station?
(Please select one response.)

Once a month

Twice a month

Three times a month

Once a week (4 X a month)

Twice a week (8 X a month)

Three times a week (12 X a month)

Four times a week (16 X a month)

Please indicate the other transportation expenses that you were thinking about when you gave this percentage.
(Please check all that apply.)

How often does the expense of fuel impact how far or how often or both you drive?
(Please select one response.)

Does your job require you to travel in your car to offsite work locations during the week?

Yes, I have to drive for work daily.

Yes, I have to drive for work 1 or more times a week.

Yes, I have to drive for work 1 or more times a month.

No, I generally stay in one place during the week.

How often does your job require you to travel out of town (requiring overnight stays)?

Please indicate the degree to which you feel children in your household impact your travel patterns. (Please select one response.)

I do not have any children in my household.

Children have no impact on my travel patterns.

Children have a minor impact on my travel patterns.

Children have a moderate impact on my travel patterns.

Children have a major impact on my travel patterns.

Please characterize your previous exposure to gasoline-electric hybrid vehicles.
(Please select one response.)

I have had ample opportunities to drive a Toyota Prius before.

I have had ample opportunities to drive another gasoline-electric hybrid vehicle before.

I have had brief opportunities to drive a gasoline-electric hybrid vehicle before.

I have often ridden as a passenger in a gasoline-electric hybrid vehicle before.

I have occasionally ridden as a passenger in a gasoline-electric hybrid vehicle before.

The most experience I have had with gasoline-electric hybrids is seeing others drive them.

I have had no exposure to gasoline-electric hybrids at all.

When you typically acquire a vehicle for yourself or your household, do you generally seek to purchase or lease a new or used vehicle?
(Please select one response.)

I expect to purchase a new vehicle.

I expect to purchase a used vehicle.

I expect to lease a new vehicle.

I expect to lease a used vehicle.

For the next vehicle that you intend to purchase, roughly how much do you intend to spend?
(Please select one response.)

For the next vehicle that you intend to lease, roughly how much do you intend to spend per month?
(Please select one response.)

Please select the class of vehicles that you will consider for your next purchase or lease.
(Please select one response.)

During the past few years, I have reduced my personal auto use or purchased a more fuel-efficient vehicle.

Is this reduction primarily from driving or from vehicle switching?
(Please select one response.)

I drive the same, but I have switched to a more efficient vehicle.

I have the same vehicle, but I drive less.

I have both switched a vehicle and drive less.

Neither

The reason that I reduced my personal auto use was motivated (please select one response):

Entirely by fuel cost savings

First by fuel cost savings, then by air quality/environmental issues

First by air quality/environmental issues, then by fuel cost savings

Entirely by air quality/environmental issues

For what percent of all personal trips (you as the driver) do you expect to take the Prius? (Please select one response.)

When I buy a vehicle, I typically consider air quality impacts as a major criterion for which vehicle I choose.
(Please select one response.)

Our energy needs should be addressed primarily through the growth and expansion of energy supplies.
(Please select one response.)

Societal changes in travel behavior should play a larger role in reducing energy consumption than technological improvements in transportation.
(Please select one response.)

Consequences of global warming will be a serious problem for the United States within (please select one response):

Environmental problems are the biggest challenge of our times.
(Please select one response.)

I regularly recycle paper, plastic, and bottles within my household.
(Please select one response.)

I regularly recycle batteries, electronics, and ink cartridges when they are no longer useful.
(Please select one response.)

It is time to change the way we live in order to solve environmental problems.
(Please select one response.)

Pollution from vehicles is a major contributor to global warming, smog, and other environmental problems.
(Please select one response.)

I often read about electric drive (e.g., hybrid, battery, or fuel cell) or alternative fuel vehicles.
(Please select one response.)

I have experience with alternative fuel infrastructure (e.g., natural gas, electric vehicle charging).
(Please select one response.)

I have scientific training with alternative fuels (e.g., coursework, on-the-job training).
(Please select one response.)

If an all-electric vehicle with a range of 150 miles per charge was available today for purchase at a price of about $30,000, I would be interesting in buying one as my next vehicle.
(Please select one response.)

I always follow a manufacturer’s warning on how to use a new product.
(Please select one response.)

Please check one or more of the following items that you actively use:

Personal digital assistant or smart phone (e.g., iPhone, Blackberry, Palm Pilot, etc.)

Rechargeable A, AA, AAA, or 9V batteries

Portable digital music player (iPod or other)

Hands-free phone device

Portable GPS tool (Magellan, Garmin, etc.)

Internet on your cell phone

Bluetooth applications

Networked printer at home

FasTrak (or some other electronic toll paying)

When a new technology that I am interested in becomes available for purchase (please select one response):

I am among the first people to purchase it.

I wait to read a review of it and then buy it if the review is favorable.

I wait for a friend or colleague to buy it and then buy it if they like it.

I buy it if/when it becomes popular with the general public.

I buy it when the product's price comes down.

I rarely purchase new technologies before they become well established.

Please indicate your gender.

Female

Male

What is your current marital status?

Single

Married

Separated

Divorced

What is the highest level of education that you have completed?

What was your household’s 2008 pre-tax income?
(Please select one response.)