Harvesting green miles from my roof: an investigation into self-sufficient mobility with electric vehicles

Jacky Bourgeois; Stefan Foell; Gerd Kortuem; Blaine A. Price; Janet van der Linden; Eiman Yehia Hussein Aly Elbanhawy

doi:10.1145/2750858.2807546

Harvesting green miles from my roof: an investigation into self-sufficient mobility with electric vehicles

Jacky Bourgeois, Stefan Foell, Gerd Kortuem, Blaine A. Price, Janet van der Linden, Eiman Yehia Hussein Aly Elbanhawy

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Abstract

Electric vehicles are an increasingly attractive option for households to reduce carbon emissions, especially when they are powered by renewable energy. In this paper we report the results of an 18-month field trial investigating the desirability and feasibility of powering electric vehicles (EVs) with domestic solar electricity. Based on extensive collection of data from 7 households including over 75,000 miles of daily EV use, home electricity consumption and generation, and in-depth interviews with householders we develop a detailed understanding of what drives EV decisions in households, quantify to what extent our participating households currently power their EVs with solar electricity, and investigate how feasible the vision of" self-sustaining electric mobility" is. We use this understanding to draw implications for future research into supporting emerging practices of EV drivers.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	UbiComp '15: Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing
Publisher	ACM
Pages	1065-1076
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-3574-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2750858.2807546
Publication status	Published - 7 Sept 2015
Event	The 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing - Osaka, Japan Duration: 7 Sept 2015 → 11 Sept 2015 https://ubicomp.org/ubicomp2015/index.html

Conference

Conference	The 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing
Abbreviated title	UbiComp '15
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Osaka
Period	7/09/15 → 11/09/15
Internet address	https://ubicomp.org/ubicomp2015/index.html

Keywords

electric vehicle
sustainability
microgeneration
solar electricity
domestic charging
user study
data mining

UN SDGs

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Bourgeois, J., Foell, S., Kortuem, G., Price, B. A., van der Linden, J., & Elbanhawy, E. Y. H. A. (2015). Harvesting green miles from my roof: an investigation into self-sufficient mobility with electric vehicles. In UbiComp '15: Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (pp. 1065-1076). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2750858.2807546

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Bourgeois, J, Foell, S, Kortuem, G, Price, BA, van der Linden, J & Elbanhawy, EYHA 2015, Harvesting green miles from my roof: an investigation into self-sufficient mobility with electric vehicles. in UbiComp '15: Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing. ACM, pp. 1065-1076, The 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, Osaka, Japan, 7/09/15. https://doi.org/10.1145/2750858.2807546

Harvesting green miles from my roof: an investigation into self-sufficient mobility with electric vehicles. / Bourgeois, Jacky; Foell, Stefan; Kortuem, Gerd et al.
UbiComp '15: Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing. ACM, 2015. p. 1065-1076.

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