This document proposes an electronic vehicle pet system to provide entertainment for EV drivers while their vehicles are charging. The system would allow drivers to raise and interact with a virtual pet on their car's screen during the 20-30 minute charging process. Raising a pet could involve feeding, playing with toys, stroking, and walking virtual representations of endangered or cute animal species. The goal is to make waiting time for charging more enjoyable and give drivers a sense of contributing to the environment. A diagram outlines how the system would work through interactions between the human driver, electric vehicle, charging station screen, and virtual pet.

1. E.V. Pet
Tortoise
Jooyeon Shon
Jiwon Yoon
Jihyun Kim

2. Environmental Issues
Increase in Awareness
Air pollution

3. Environmental Issues
EVs are the future of
transportation.
EV are cars that give out no
pollutants in the air.
Changing one gas car to a EV will
affects the earth as if planting 420
trees.

4. Electronic Vehicles
Daily use drawbacks: Waiting time to charge is time consuming. (burden)
20 ~ 30 mins

5. “ How can we make the charging time more wait-able, enjoyable? ”
< Electronic Vehicle Pets >
A simple and entertainment system of ‘raising your own pet’ for E.V. drivers
when charging in public charging stations.

6. Screen inside of the car
Tesla
BMW i3
Soul

7. System Concept Statement
Goal:
“To provide a fun interaction while waiting for the electric car to charge in charging stations, and giving the
electrical vehicle users a sense of contribution to the environment.”
User:
Electric Vehicle(EV) users.
Context:
Social/ethical demands for vehicles that use cleaner energy.
The drawback of lengthy recharging time required on daily basis.

8. Car → Stop the engine → Get out of car → ID Card → Plug in Charger → Get in car →
Wait → …. → Get out of car → Unplug Charger → Drive
Typical Charging Process

9. Place-making
Charging the
EV
Raising the
Pet
Walking the Pet

10. Walking the Pet

12. → Get out of car → Unplug charger → Drive
Car → Stop the engine → Get out of car → ID Card → Plug in Charger → Get in car
→ Pet appear → Feed → Play (toy) → Stroke → Pet gives
full Charge notice

13. Accessibility
Adopt/Choose a pet to be raised .
Appears only when charging is plugged
into the car.
Disappears when charging is
unplugged.
There is a certain time frame for each
pet to be raised.
→ Endangered, Cute, Friendly Animal
→ Eliminate the risk of driving usage
and focus on the ‘waiting time’
Not Overwhelming/ Distracting
→ Enhance a long term use of the
system : adopt new pets.

14. Consistency

15. Resilience - Emotional Bond

16. Customization
Emotional Bond

17. Pet raising system
Average term of use of the Electric Vehicle: Below 5 years.
-> Able to raise (if one pet takes up to 6 months) 6~8 animals
- Several months for one pet: emotional bond + Collect wider variety of animals.

18. Endangered species

21. Polar bear

22. System Diagram
1. Human
- ID card
1. Car
- screen
- Battery
- GPS/Navigation
3. Charging Station
card
screen GPS
Toy of station

24. Journey map/ story board
User Interaction in Charging Station
→ Playground

25. Concept movie