Smart Transportation: Synergizing Electrified Vehicles and Mobile Information Systems

摘要

Whereas other household carbonand energy-saving measures (such as eating less meat, switching light bulbs, or reusing shopping bags) require consumers to remember to and choose to change behavior repeatedly and/ or in small ways (which has proved extremely challenging), the vehicle purchase decision happens once every few years. [...] policies to influence this consumer decision can have a higher impact on national sustainability, per individual decision, than those that seek to change other consumer decisions. According to the Department of Energy, the Smart Grid will apply "informationage technologies, such as microprocessors, communications, advanced computing, and information technologies" 3 to improve our existing grid.