During week 5 we began to actively search for interviewees. It was more easier said than done since none of us actually knew anybody who would have own an EV straight away. Thus, the very first task was to ask if any of our closest relatives and friends would know someone. For example our parents promised that they would try to find usufull contacts in their working places.
Also, it clearly helps to keep eyes and ears open whenever and whenever considering our project. Matias met on Saturday one older IEM student, who appared to work in Virta, a startup that works with the EV plugs. His dad also gave me some helpfull information about the different EV parking spaces in Kesko's supermarkets.
As been said, we were able to find plenty of more articles related to elbnb, the Swedish startup that uses somewhat same idea than we came up with. It clearly has boosted up the amount of EV plugs in Sweden in just couple of weeks which confirms that we are in the right track. We familiarized ourselves with the core functionalities of the service and thought of how the service could be improved. Linda also sent an email to them and we look forward to get an answer from them, that would be really beneficial considering our project.
If you want to read more about elbnb, here are some usefull websites:
http://elbnb.se/
http://www.thelocal.se/20160706/airbnb-for-electric-cars-launched-in-sweden
https://cleantechnica.com/2016/07/08/swedens-elbnb-like-airbnb-ev-chargers/
We had a meeting once again on Thursday. Juuso announced that he would travel to Singapore for two weeks. He promised to start work with the "mock-up" while abroad, which could be according to him done remote. Matias and Väinö decided to hold the presentation. Otherwise everything seemed to be satisfaying and each of us could continue the work on their own. Since most of us work at least three days a week, much of the work is done remote.
As a reference for the prototype, we decided to use Uber. Uber's user interface and experience is among the best solutions.
Picture 5: Ubers user interface
We will meet once again on Thursday and on Friday the course continiues.
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