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THE EUROPEAN UNION The European Regional Development Fund
Investing in your future The etrans project is supported by the Region of Southern Denmark’s Growth Forum, the European Fund for regional Development and the Danish Enterprise and Construction Authority
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A PROJECT ON ELECTRIC CARS WITH X-FACTOR A major project at Kolding School of Design - involving local councils, businesses, researchers and designers - that aims to make electric cars a commercial success
THE GOAL
To design an eco-structure that makes it attractive, smart and meaningful to exchange petrol guzzlers with battery driven cars and show that it is possible to use batteries as an energy buffer. When the wind blows and the sun shines millions of batteries can be charged the world over, so they are ready when there is a need for them. The technology is there, now it is up to the designers to operationalise that technology; in other words make it useful and desirable.
THE METHOD
The main actors in this green transport revolution, the car drivers, will be involved in the design of the transport of the future. In collaboration with researchers, designers, design students and a range of private and public companies, they will help develop suggestions, for example, for town planning, battery charging technology, car interiors, roadside services, car insurance and help develop alternative possibilities for the purchase of other related and environmentally friendly products. But they will not be involved in the actual design of a new electric car. This is the only aspect of electric cars that the project will not be dealing with.
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THIS IS WHAT WE’LL DO