A Proposal for an IT-mediated Urban Electric Vehicle System

Electric vehicle technology has - in spite of limitations primarily on range and price - for a decade or more been able to satisfy the need for personal urban transport on a large scale. But this has not happened. The paper discusses why, and then presents a comprehensive proposal to enable and stimulate a fast and significant transfer to electric transport in congested cities. The proposal exploits advanced but available technologies such as the Web, mobile wireless communication, GPS navigation, computerised data logging - and combines this with political-economic and organisational measures to stimulate transfer to electric vehicles.