New Concept of Shared Scooters
Internship report for Graduate's Degree in Product Design
Simão Chaves
- Year
- 2021 ·
- Mentors
- Marco Gomes e André Santos ·
- Degree
- Graduate in Design ·
- Course
- Product Design
It is aimed at a future that is increasingly directed towards the use of new and increasingly evolved means of green transport (Matevž et al., 2019). However, there is a need to reformulate existing vehicles in order to make them more efficient and with an aesthetic point of view that is increasingly differentiating and appealing, also increasing their level of safety, convenience and experience (Anagnostopoulou et al., 2019). This will also fall into the mission of flirting and inducing consumers to choose these solutions. Always taking into account the need for recurrent and almost mandatory traffic in daily life, there is a need to develop new solutions and, consequently, services, which will provide better flexibility in the urban context, or in the context of better temporal freedom (in what concerns respect for hours spent in traffic), or excessive use of cars, possible access restrictions and with greater importance in relation to environmental and, consequently, public health issues due to toxic gaseous emissions emitted by traditional motor vehicles (Fiori et al ., 2019; Knittel et al., 2016; Suarez-Bertoa et al., 2019). Taking advantage of this maturation that is the mobility paradigm, there is an opportunity to develop, in the form of a curricular internship at CEiiA, a research project in the area of sustainable mobility. This internship consisted in the development of an electric propulsion vehicle, coupled with a sharing service, whose main foundation was to contribute to the successive evolution of this type of vehicle. There was also the responsibility to continue and enhance projects related to mobility with green labels and associated services, such as CEiiA signature and values. In order to solve this exercise, the following softwares were used: Fusion 360, Autodesk Alias, Keyshot and Adobe Photoshop.