The Future of Urban Mobility
Mobile Charging Station Project
Ricardo Ramos
- Year
- 2019 ·
- Mentors
- Lucio Magri e Jeremy Aston ·
- Degree
- Graduate in Design ·
- Course
- Product Design
Human activities have driven an era characterised by significant impacts on ecosystems and climate change. Despite representing only about 2% of the geographical space and hosting more than 50% of the world's population, cities produce 80% of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and consume 80% of the world's resources (Yigitcanlar, 2018). Because of this situation and stimulated by technological advances, electric mobility is spreading and gaining increasing importance as a sustainable solution for urban environments. Despite this spread of electric vehicles (EVs) and the new era of electrification and connectivity (Divya and Ostergaard, 2009; Melica, 2018), dedicated infrastructure is still very limited or non-existent in most cities. Given the limitations of battery range and charging infrastructure, it is necessary to implement a roadside charging network. This document aims to describe the development of an internship report carried out as part of the Master's Degree in Product Design, integrated into CEiiA (Centre for Engineering and Product Development). This process, based on a new business model in the area of on-demand energy supply, aimed to meet the needs of EV charging system users. Based on the architecture of the propulsion system already developed by CEiiA, known as ‘skate’, the concept of a temporary autonomous electric vehicle charging module was created.