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

北极地区对电动汽车（EV）的采用越来越感兴趣。该项目将评估电动汽车在哪里、如何以及为谁提供广泛的好处，并确定可能需要做出哪些改变才能为北极社区实现这些好处。将研究电动汽车在寒冷的北极温度下的性能，以及电动汽车对偏远农村电力系统的影响。这个跨学科项目还将探讨电价和公共政策将如何影响电动汽车的采用和使用。该项目的劳动力发展重点将使社区受益，并解决电动汽车采用的一个常见障碍：当地维护和维修。该项目将汇集阿拉斯加Kotzebue和Galena的研究人员、部落社区合作伙伴、电力公司和汽车技术职业项目，以回答如何将电动汽车整合到偏远的北极社区，以提高弹性，提供更清洁、更实惠的交通，并促进能源正义的问题。该项目将开展工程和社会科学研究，以解决极端寒冷天气对电动汽车的未知影响、电动汽车对偏远北极柴油微电网的影响，以及促进阿拉斯加农村电动汽车广泛、公平使用所需的社会经济条件和政策，以支持服务不足社区的自决。通过收集数据，进行建模和分析，并发布在零下30摄氏度（包括越野电动汽车）温度下运行的电动汽车的结果，将提高对商用电动汽车在极端寒冷气候下的效率和性能的了解。为了了解阿拉斯加农村地区对电动汽车的接受程度，电动汽车如何与使用模式和需求相结合，以及采用电动汽车的潜在障碍，该项目将把交通接受模型（TAM）应用于两个研究社区的电动汽车使用。将对电动汽车充电对北极柴油微电网的影响以及政策选择对柴油微电网社区电动汽车吸收和充电行为的影响进行新颖的研究。该项目还汇集了阿拉斯加安克雷奇大学（UAA）社区和技术学院的汽车/柴油项目，位于Kotzebue的阿拉斯加技术中心，以及Galena城市学区的Galena室内学习学院，共同开发和提供适合阿拉斯加农村电动汽车的文化和社区响应性劳动力发展课程。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。

The Arctic is seeing increased interest in Electric vehicles (EV) adoption. This project will evaluate where, how, and for whom EVs can provide widespread benefits, and identify what might need to change to realize these benefits for Arctic communities. The performance of EVs in cold Arctic temperatures will be studied as well as how EVs will affect isolated rural power systems. The interdisciplinary project will also address how electric rates and public policies will affect EV adoption and use. The project’s workforce development focus will benefit the communities and address a common barrier to EV adoption: local maintenance and repair. This project will bring together researchers, tribal community partners, electric utilities, and vocational programs in automotive technology in Kotzebue and Galena, Alaska, to answer the question of how EVs can be integrated in remote Arctic communities to improve resilience, provide cleaner, affordable mobility, and promote energy justice.This project will conduct convergent engineering and social science research to address the unknown impacts of extreme cold weather on EVs, the impact of EVs on remote Arctic diesel microgrids, and the socio-economic conditions and policies needed to facilitate widespread, equitable use of EVs in rural Alaska to support the self-determination of underserved communities. Knowledge of the efficiency and performance of commercially available EVs in extremely cold climates will be advanced by collecting data, performing modeling and analysis, and publishing results for EVs operating in temperatures below -30 degrees Celsius, including off-road EVs. To learn how receptive rural Alaskans are to EVs, how EVs would integrate with use patterns and needs, and potential barriers to adoption, this project will apply the transportation acceptance model (TAM) to EV use in the two study communities. Novel research will be conducted on the impacts of EV charging on Arctic diesel microgrids and the impacts of policy choices on EV uptake and charging behavior in diesel microgrid communities. This project also brings together the University of Alaska Anchorage’s (UAA) Community and Technical College Auto/Diesel Program, the Alaska Technical Center in Kotzebue, and the Galena City School District’s Galena Interior Learning Academy to develop and deliver culturally appropriate and community responsive workforce development curricula tailored to EVs in rural Alaska.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.