Engagement

How to be involved

We appreciate your interest in this multidisciplinary project. You can be involved by participating in the activities, helping recruit research respondents, co-developing research agendas, and collaborating in the project research.

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FAQs

  • The benefits of participation include:

    • Contributing to research on EV charging and energy management
    • Sharing experiences and perspectives on current practices
    • Helping shapes future energy management strategies
    • Understanding emerging technologies and opportunities

  • The focus group participants will be asked to share their experiences and views about:

    • Current energy use and management practices
    • EV charging patterns and preferences
    • Perspectives on energy sharing/selling opportunities
    • Information needs for decision-making

    The survey participants will be asked to provide:

    • Travel diary (daily travel patterns and activities)
    • EV charging diary
    • PV usage
    • Appliance usage diary (timing and frequency of major appliance use)
    • Decision preferences for charging/discharging under different scenarios
    • Interactions between travel behaviour, charging/discharging decisions and household appliance usage patterns
    • Preferences for emerging charging and energy trading models

    • Information from the focus group will be used to guide the development of the online survey (e.g., questionnaire development)
    • Data collected from focus groups and survey will be used for research purposes (with potential policy/practice-related outcomes).
    • The research project is approved by the University of Melbourne Human Research Ethics Committee (Ethics ID 2024-30851-59707-3).

  • For more information about the project, you may contact the project team: