Assessing electric vehicle adoption using the ISEVA framework: An expert-informed policy perspective

Electric vehicles (EVs) are essential to sustainable transport and climate change adaptation. The purpose of this research is to explore and assess the policy factors perceived by experts to be most important for EV adoption by analyzing variables associated with safety, infrastructure, and climatic conditions. With the Integrated Sustainable EV Adoption (ISEVA) framework in place, the study conducts a qualitative investigation to summarize insights from 12 experts (government, academia, and industry) on EV adoption in Jordan. This approach integrates thematic analysis with frequency evaluation to assess barriers to adoption across five variables: safety compliance, infrastructure preparedness, climate resilience, sustainable development, and equity. The results show that the most important barriers are associated with infrastructure equity & readiness, and the Cost/equity gap. ISEVA contributes as an integrative organizing framework for identifying interacting policy constraints in rapidly developing, hot-climate, import-dependent EV markets. The findings support coordinated action on charging interoperability, affordability, safety enforcement, desert-ready performance, maintenance capacity, and consumer protection.