Fossil fuels have greatly affected the world. How we move around in our cars, how we produce and consume our food, how we keep our economy running, generate electricity and spatialize our cities. But whether we like it or not, we are moving towards a future without these fossil fuels ¬– an era in which …

We live in a hearing world. Others live in a deaf world. The deaf world has its own language, the sign language, Dutch or English or . . . Frisian. The deaf world also has its memorials, made out of stone. The only deaf memorial in the Netherlands --- and likely in the whole world --- is in Amsterdam, …

WHY? (ADAPT) The city of Liège is suffocating because of extreme car hospitality. Public space has been stripped down to traffic space, serving the singular purpose of moving and parking polluting, dangerous and space inefficient cars. Global challenges concerning pandemics, climate change and sub-urbanization …

At this moment, charging your electric vehicle is common good, however smart charging is still a novelty in the developing phase with many unknowns. A smart charging system monitors, manages and restricts the charging process to optimize energy consumption. The need for, and advantages of smart charging …

Hundreds of sensors in our smartphones, cars, houses and other "smart" devices feed the IoT, that monitors both our functioning, and that of the smart devices. In 2050 the Internet of Things - which processes and stores all sensor data - will require a multiple of all the current energy together in air …

The creation of an unstoppable Internet of Things (IoT) is about the worst that can happen to us as humanity. Not only will the IoT soon use more energy than all our current air traffic, it will also be quite easy to create an Orwelian (1984) terror from it. In particular, the IoT is powered by sensors, …

T.b.v. RVO is een samenvatting geschreven van het onderzoeksproject Solar Miles. Dit project betreft deelauto’s die worden opgeladen met zonne-energie. Het doel is een innovatief serviceconcept te ontwikkelen dat gebruikers van deelauto’s motiveert zodanig gebruik te maken van deze auto’s dat inzet van …

Nissan Motor Co. is a worldwide car manufacturer established in Japan in 1933. Nissan has the slogan ‘innovation that excites’, and many years they have been the leader in a few European car branch markets. Examples are the European market of electric cars and a few C-segment markets. This plan is written …

The purpose of this research paper was to answer the central question: How can promotion of electric cars be improved on social media? In order to answer this question desk and field research has been used. First, desk research has been conducted by analysing several articles and marketing books. Multiple …

In September 2017, the Lectorates LEAN & Worldclass Performance and Automotive Research of the HAN University of Applied Science, together with a consortium of (SME) industry partners, started the research project ‘Workshop on the Move’. The project is the search for the answer to the question as to …