Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Week 4 - Defining customer requirements and existing solutions

Week 4

Once we had decided to develop our "AirBnB" solution, it was time to investigate the current solutions worldwide and start to look for possible interviewees. We wanted to find especially current EV owners, but also interview car owners who do not find owning an EV usefull at the moment.  Furthermore, it was very interesting to notice that for example in Sweden, one company has launched lately a service called "ElBnb" that uses somewhat similar concept we had thought.

  
Picture 4: A picture of Elbnb's user interface 

On Thursday we had a meeting where we discussed about the preferred outcome of the project and dealt responsibilities for next week. The meeting was very efficient and we reached agreement about the content fast.

We found four different parts of the project we have to take into account 

1) Background
      - Current situation of EV charging
      - Problems
2) Requirements
      - End users
      - Customers and stakeholders
3) Solution
      - Functionalities
      - Value Proposition
      - Business plan
      - Prototype
4) Launching plan
      - How to make our solution "nationwide"

Our responsibilities for week 5 were as followed:

Matias: Background study
Jani: Questionnaire for non-EV users
Linda: Elnbn and other current solutions
Väinö & Juuso: Car manufacturers

All: To find EV owners and get familiar with the topic!

We will meet propably on Thursday and find out what each of us has done during the week.

Until then, see you!


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