NNA Planning: Collaborative Research: Electric Vehicles in the Arctic (EVITA) - Interactions with Cold Weather, Microgrids, People, and Policy

该奖项全部或部分由《2021年美国救援计划法案》（公法117-2）资助。导航新北极（NNA）是美国国家科学基金会的十大构想之一。NNA项目解决快速变化的北极地区的融合科学挑战。北极研究需要为国家、更大地区和全球的经济、安全和复原力提供信息。NNA支持从地方到国际规模的新研究伙伴关系，使下一代北极研究人员多样化，加强正式和非正式教育的努力，并在适当情况下整合知识的共同生产。该奖项通过支持具有明确潜力的规划活动，以开发新颖，领先的研究理念和方法来实现NNA目标，从而实现了该目标的一部分。它整合了 自然环境、建筑环境和/或社会系统的各个方面， 解决了重要的社会挑战，并与当地和土著社区合作。电动汽车（EV）在全球范围内是一种日益增长的交通方式，北极地区对电动汽车的采用越来越感兴趣。然而，为了评估电动汽车在哪里、如何以及为谁提供广泛的好处，以及实现这些好处可能需要做出哪些改变，必须填补几个基本的知识空白。例如，关于电动汽车在寒冷的北极温度下的性能以及电动汽车如何影响偏远农村电力系统的数据很少。目前还不清楚电价和公共政策将如何影响电动汽车的采用和使用。该规划项目将来自阿拉斯加三个社区的研究人员和社区成员聚集在一起，确定电动汽车在不同潜在用户群体（即自给自足用户、青年、老年人等）中采用的感知障碍、促进采用的机制、感知有用性和使用情况。它还研究了农村用户在特定用例（如生存活动）中传统汽车和电动汽车之间的潜在权衡。该规划项目通过解决已确定的知识差距，为未来电动汽车采用研究奠定基础，这些知识差距可以为在北极农村社区实现公正、公平和可持续的能源系统提供必要的数据和信息。该规划项目的重点是通过与三个具有代表性的偏远岛屿网格社区（Kotzebue， Galena和Bethel， Alaska）合作，开展工程和社会科学研究的规划活动，加强社区联系。在这三个社区举行的首次社区会议开始了关于电动汽车在他们社区的愿景和关注的公开讨论。三个社区各举行两次后续社区会议，继续建立合作和想法。这些会议促进了知识共享，以指导未来联合研究计划的访谈问题和离散选择实验的发展，寻求社区在电动汽车决策中使用的工具的设计反馈，并加强与社区的联系。在这些社区会议期间，研究的重点是收集有关车辆使用的有限数据。研究和社区项目合作伙伴的其他远程会议巩固了知识共享如何为研究设计提供信息，以解决围绕寒冷天气影响、电网影响和政策的知识差距。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并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。

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).Navigating the New Arctic (NNA) is one of NSF's 10 Big Ideas. NNA projects address convergence scientific challenges in the rapidly changing Arctic. The Arctic research is needed to inform the economy, security and resilience of the Nation, the larger region and the globe. NNA empowers new research partnerships from local to international scales, diversifies the next generation of Arctic researchers, enhances efforts in formal and informal education, and integrates the co-production of knowledge where appropriate. This award fulfills part of that aim by supporting planning activities with clear potential to develop novel, leading edge research ideas and approaches to address NNA goals. It integrates aspects of the natural environment, built environment, and/or social systems, and addresses important societal challenges and engages with local and Indigenous communities.Electric vehicles (EVs) are a growing mode of transportation across the globe, and the Arctic is seeing increased interest in EV adoption. However, several fundamental gaps in knowledge must be filled to evaluate where, how, and for whom EVs can provide widespread benefits, and what might need to change to realize these benefits. For example, little data exist on the performance of EVs in cold Arctic temperatures and how EVs affect isolated rural power systems. It is also not clear how electric rates and public policies will affect EV adoption and use. This planning project brings together researchers and community members from three Alaska communities to identify perceived barriers to adoption, mechanisms for facilitating adoption, perceived usefulness, and use of EVs among different potential user groups (i.e., subsistence users, youth, elders, etc.). It also examines potential trade-offs between conventional and electric vehicles for rural users across specific use cases, such as subsistence activities. This planning project serves as the foundation for future research on EV adoption by addressing the identified knowledge gaps that can provide data and information necessary to achieve just, equitable, and sustainable energy systems in rural Arctic communities.The focus of this planning project is on strengthening community connections by conducting planning activities for convergent engineering and social science research in partnership with three representative remote islanded grid communities (Kotzebue, Galena, and Bethel, Alaska). An initial community meeting in these three communities initiates an open discussion about visions and concerns for EVs in their community. Two more follow-up community meetings in each of the three communities continue to build collaborations and ideas. These meetings facilitate the sharing of knowledge to guide the development of interview questions and discrete choice experiments planned for future co-produced research, to seek design feedback around tools for the community to use in EV decision-making, and to strengthen connections with the communities. During these community meetings, research focuses on limited data collection on vehicle usage. Additional remote meetings of research and community project partners solidify how the knowledge sharing informs research design to address gaps in knowledge around cold weather impacts, grid impacts, and policy.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.