A Charging Place to Be - Users’ Evaluation Criteria for the Positioning of Fast-charging Infrastructure for Electro Mobility

Today's cities endure major risks like global warming due to gas emissions. This is challenging for both humans and technical developments. E-mobility, however, raises the opportunities of enhancing a more sustainable mobility (structure) and providing healthier living in future cities. The paper identifies not only which locations of fast-charging stations in a city are preferred but also reveals how users evaluate them. With multiple empirical focus group studies, a user-centered evaluation could be carried out. This is important to identify possible trade-offs for infrastructural planning due to e-mobility use in the future. In total, eight main evaluation criteria for fast-charging locations regarding both position and concrete realization were derived in the subsequent discussions about the charging infrastructure. An overall accordance could be identified in the discussions, which indicates a step in the right direction for the long term goal of building a charging network with the help of user preferences.