EVIS 2013: 2nd Workshop on Electric Vehicle Information Systems

Sustainability is today one of the key factors for car manufacturers worldwide. Electric vehicles (EVs) are clean, quiet and efficient and offer a great opportunity to keep our environment healthy. After the first era of EVs in 1900 (28% of the vehicles in the US were electric at that time [3]) the second era seems to have started: In the US and China one million electric vehicles are targeted for the year 2015. High effort has therefore been put into developing novel technologies, materials and infrastructure for EVs to reach this goal. On the downside, only little research has been done on how to lower the barriers for drivers to understand the characteristics of EVs [9]. We argue that information systems for electric vehicles (EVIS) play a major role in communicating EV specific information in a transparent and understandable way to the driver and passengers. Developing appropriate EVIS that support a broad variety of e-mobility concepts is thus a key factor to raise the acceptance of EVs and to overcome issues like range anxiety. With this workshop, we continue to bring together researchers, designers or practitioners of this design space in order to define a list of Grand Challenges of an e-mobility future. Author