I-Corps: Range-based car swapping networks

这个I-Corps项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是显着降低电动汽车（EV）的成本。软件平台技术使用生命周期方法简化了车辆交换网络的设计，以实现规模补贴。最初的重点将影响现有的电动汽车车主和点对点汽车共享平台的成员。该平台可以针对各种运输需求进行定制，这些需求可能会受益于偶尔使用专用车辆。 在驾驶员网络内有效交换车辆以及将补贴规模扩大到特定网络的好处的能力将导致运输成本的降低，从而吸引广泛的用户。新用户不需要建立自己的网络，而是能够在初始网络的基础上进行构建，增加新的功能和更大的地理多样性。这个I-Corps项目旨在使驾驶员能够在远程和短程电动汽车（EV）网络中交换车辆。生命周期评估研究的最新进展提供了开发一个软件平台所需的知识，该平台可以让运输企业估计生命周期的排放量，从而获得对电动汽车盈利至关重要的联邦、州和地方补贴。 特别是，生命周期评估研究最近开发了区域化模型，这些模型考虑了排放的空间明确限制以及电池制造工艺的详细影响清单。一个软件应用程序，可以帮助这些网络的最佳设计，以降低成本和优化温室气体的节省，将提高用户的能力，负担得起的可持续运输和公共机构的能力，规模补贴的实际利益，一个特定的车辆网络。 该系统利用电动汽车生命周期评估的研究成果，量化了原材料提取、制造、车辆使用、报废回收和处置等一系列产品阶段的经济成本和温室气体排放。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project is to significantly reduce the cost of electric vehicles (EV). The software platform technology streamlines the design of vehicle swapping networks using a life-cycle approach to scale subsidies. The initial focus will impact existing EV owners and members of peer-to-peer car-sharing platforms. The platform can be customized for a wide range of transportation needs that may benefit from occasional access to specialized vehicles. The ability to efficiently swap vehicles within a network of drivers and to scale subsidies to the benefits of a specific network will result in reduction in transportation costs that may attract a wide range of users. New users will not need to form their own networks but will be able to build onto initial networks, adding new functions and greater geographic diversity.This I-Corps project aims to enable drivers to swap vehicles within a network of long-range and short-range electric vehicles (EV's). Recent advances in life-cycle assessment research provide the knowledge needed to develop a software platform that can allow transportation businesses to estimate life-cycle emissions which provide access to federal, state, and local subsidies that are essential to EV profitability. In particular, life-cycle assessment studies have recently developed regionalized models that account for spatially explicit constraints on emissions as well as detailed impact inventories of battery manufacturing processes. A software application that can assist in the optimal design of these networks to reduce cost and optimize greenhouse gas savings will enhance both the user ability to afford sustainable transportation and the public agency ability to scale subsidies to the actual benefits of a specific vehicle network. The system leverages research results in life-cycle assessment on electric vehicles that quantifies the economic cost and greenhouse gas emissions across a range of product stages including raw material extraction, manufacturing, vehicle use, and end-of-life recycling and disposal.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.