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

NNA 规划：合作研究：北极电动汽车 (EVITA) - 与寒冷天气、微电网、人员和政策的相互作用

• 批准号: 2127172
• 负责人: Jennifer Schmidt
• 金额: $ 12.7万
• 依托单位: University of Alaska Anchorage Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2127172&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NNA; Planning; Collaborative; Research; Electric

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.

该奖项是根据2021年《美国救援计划法》的全部或部分资助（公共法117-2）。对新北极（NNA）的努力是NSF的10个大想法之一。 NNA项目应对北极快速变化的融合科学挑战。需要进行北极研究，以告知国家，较大地区和全球的经济，安全和弹性。 NNA赋予从本地量表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，加强了正规和非正式教育方面的努力，并在适当的情况下整合了知识的共同生产。该奖项通过支持规划活动具有明确的潜力来开发新颖的，领先的研究思想和方法来解决NNA目标，从而实现了这一目标的一部分。它整合了自然环境，建筑环境和/或社会系统的各个方面，并提出了重要的社会挑战，并与当地和土著社区互动。电动车辆（EVS）是整个全球运输方式的增长，并且北极对EV采用的兴趣日益增加。但是，必须填补知识中的几个基本差距，以评估EVS在哪里，如何以及为谁提供宽敞的福利，以及可能需要改变的内容才能实现这些好处。例如，关于电动汽车在冷北极温度中的性能以及电动汽车如何影响孤立的农村电力系统的数据很少。还不清楚电费和公共政策将如何影响电动汽车的采用和使用。该计划项目汇集了来自三个阿拉斯加社区的研究人员和社区成员，以确定采用的障碍，支持采用的机制，感知的有用性以及在不同潜在的用户群体中（即生存用户，青年，老年人等）中电动汽车的使用。它还研究了在特定用例（例如生存活动）中，用于粗糙用户的常规和电动汽车之间的潜在权衡。 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).这三个社区的最初社区会议开始了关于其社区中电动汽车的愿景和关注的公开讨论。在这三个社区中的每个社区中的每个社区会议上还有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的共享，以指导针对未来共同制作的研究计划的面试问题和离散选择实验的发展，以寻求围绕社区的工具的设计反馈，以便社区用于EV决策，并加强与社区的联系。在这些社区会议期间，研究重点是有关车辆使用的有限数据收集。研究和社区项目合作伙伴的其他远程会议巩固了如何解决知识共享信息研究设计，以解决有关寒冷天气影响，网格影响和政策知识差距的差距。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响标准来评估通过评估来诚实地对支持。