A Car-free Year – Everyday Life with Light Electric Vehicles
One year commuting with an electric bike has less climate impact than one single day’s commuting with a car. Furthermore, you gain both time and money. In this project we kidnapped the car from three families with kids during one year.
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In this project we kidnapped the car from three families with kids during one year. The aim was to explore how families’ mobility work with electric bikes, electric scooters and four-wheeled electric motorbikes instead of cars. From their experiences we created a number of design concepts to show how the city could encourage more people to choose sustainable transportation solutions.
The project had two parts:
The car-free year: We studied the changed practices of three families who during one year replaced their cars with light electric vehicles. In this film you can hear their stories.
The car-free city: The insights from the families’ experiences of the car-free year were developed into design concepts to make the city welcome more people to be car-free. This film talks about the research project and shows some of the design concepts.
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The movies are licensed under Creative Commons, Attribution-NoDerivatives, which means you are welcome to publish them on your channels or show them in different contexts.
Photo and editing: Stefan Wrenfelt
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The project is funded by The Swedish Energy Agency and is a collaboration with Sustainable Innovation and MID at KTH Royal Institute of Technology as well as the design agency Propeller . The project started in December 2013 and will continue until June 2016.
Contacts
Project Manager
Teo Enlund