A Review Into the Obstacles and Motivating Factors Behind the Endeavor to Achieve Sustainable Development and Decrease Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Utilizing Hybrid Vehicles

ABSTRACT The paper provides a comprehensive review of why hybrid cars are becoming popular, focusing on market demand and emerging trends. This review synthesizes the 196 peer‐reviewed articles from a pool of 1258 publications that have been searched within the past two decades to identify the primary determinants of consumer behavior. The study initiates by analyzing the determinants for increasing demand for hybrid cars, inclusive of increasing fuel prices, environmental awareness, and government incentives. It then discusses the latest market trends, which include extending the hybrid car portfolios of different original equipment manufacturers and increasing hybridization in commercial vehicles. The review further looks into consumer preference and purchasing behavior of hybrid cars and identifies two key sets of literature: studies assessing motivating factors that include environmental awareness, fuel efficiency, and government incentives, and studies on barriers such as high purchase cost, inadequate charging infrastructure, and negative consumer perceptions. The article concludes by discussing the future direction of the hybrid car market, including possible challenges and further opportunities towards growth. This review establishes that, while hybrid cars boast overwhelming benefits due to reduced fuel use and resultant lower greenhouse gas emissions, they also have some key drawbacks inherent in their very nature, such as higher purchase costs and limited range, which may invite customer hesitation. The paper concludes that expediting diffusion of hybrid cars and realization of their environmental benefits require any policy framework to be founded on social feasibility, economic realism, and regional adaptability by aligning financial incentives, technological developments, and consumer education with local conditions while avoiding overambitious infrastructure projects. Basically, motivating factors can have a great impact on the increase in demand for hybrid automobiles. Finally, the study proposes the CalmMobility paradigm as a meta‐framework to reconcile policy ambition with social legitimacy.