摘要
This paper explores the potential meanings of battery electric vehicles （battery EVs）. Relevant ideas were collated through facilitated exchange of explicated and tacit knowledge, realized by individual essay preparation and a facilitated seminar workshop. Additional classifications and clustering by the author led to the following principal results： the EV as a power source and buffer forms the foundation for most meanings beyond transport. EVs can act both in the context of＂shelters＂ for individuals as well as ＂community vehicles＂ with a focus on, e.g., local renewable energy production integration. Reduced to a simple product, EVs can also be designed to make sense in developing country environments. However, many ＂intelligent＂ features associated to EVs are available also for combustion engine vehicles and thus provide only necessary, but not unique added value to EVs. Concluding, EVs will take over market share from internal combustion vehicles only if they satisfy human needs beyond mobility.
