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Echos Electric Charging Station by Riccardo Petruzzelli Wins the Bronze A' Design Award in Energy Products, Projects and Devices Design
Riccardo Petruzzelli acknowledged for energy products, projects and devices design by the international grand jury of the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 16, 2024 /DesignNewswire/ Echos Electric Charging Station by Riccardo Petruzzelli has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Energy Products, Projects and Devices Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Bronze A' Design Award Explained
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
More About Echos Electric Charging Station
Electric charging On-demand Station was born from the desire to provide a robotic, autonomous and on-demand charging experience that is therefore not bound by a fixed position. This makes charging flexible, simple and accessible at any time. The goal is to push the creator to design a product that will help users and that could represent the future of electric vehicle charging. Echos exceeds the standards of the traditional fixed charging station and opens up new scenarios. For Echos, geometric lines have also been designed.
About Riccardo Petruzzelli
Precise, professional, independent, punctual, creative and focused on collaborative work, constantly looking for new sources of inspiration and committed to maintaining a continuous update. His distinctive feature, which will play a crucial role in the pursuit of his objectives, is perseverance. His technological skills are integrated in a synergistic way with manual ones, allowing his to face projects in a complete and versatile way. Research, development and project planning are the essential foundations on which he bases his professional approach.
Award Record
With this recognition, Riccardo Petruzzelli is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Energy Products, Projects and Devices Design Award
The A' Energy Design Award is an international competition recognizing good energy products, projects and services by leading designers and brands worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to energy product designers, energy device engineers, industrial design studios and energy systems architects from all countries. Entries typically include solar panels, wind turbines, hydroelectric generators, geothermal systems, bioenergy converters and fuel cells. Awarded energy product designs are published at https://desingers.org/design-category/energy
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://desingers.org/158182
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/158182
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!158182
- Laureate Profile: https://desingers.org/d/352934
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Echos Electric Charging Station
- Function
- Electric Charging Station
- Category
- Energy Products, Projects and Devices Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Sustainability and Manufacturing
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Sky Blue, Pale Turquoise, Medium Aquamarine and Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Riccardo Petruzzelli
- Country
- Italy
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2023 - 2024
- Design ID
- #158182
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Echos: electric charging on-demand station. It consists of a charging station, autonomous, mobile and on-demand that can be functional both for the user of an electric vehicle and for the urban context. The idea stems from the desire to provide a robotic, autonomous and on-demand charging experience that is therefore not bound by a fixed position, all this making charging flexible, simple and accessible at any time.
- Inspiration
- The city of the future, is based on an innovative model with a "Smart" approach. One of the key issues for achieving sustainable urban development in smart cities is mobility. The project deals with analyzing this process of electrification, ie the progressive replacement of means of transport that use fossil fuels, with technologies that use electricity. The project aims to meet the need to ensure and expand the charging network not only in a capillary but also flexible.
- Research
- The empirical research method focuses on observation and experimentation to understand and explain phenomena. The objectives of the research are to collect data and explain the behavior of users towards electric vehicles and the way to recharge them. The types of analysis used are: field analysis, an analysis of the electric vehicle market, a benchmark analysis and best practices. User profiles (personas) were also created that could use the product and service made.
- Challenge
- The most important difficulty faced during the design was to look for information and applications realized on autonomous vehicles and their technologies. The design has also led to define the use of technologies not yet tested but still being tested.
- Realization and Technology
- The approach used is "Design Thinking": it researches and analyzes problems and intervenes in the processes that concern them, removing obstacles and finding new opportunities for improvement. The materials were chosen according to Sustainability: -Structure: aluminium, chosen for its many characteristics, one of which is recyclability. -Shell: abs recycled, has strong toughness, impact and tensile strength. One of the transformation technologies of this material is thermoforming.
- Operation and Interaction
- The user can request an Echos device via the app and can proceed with the charging request. The app estimates Echos arrival time based on the location of the nearest hub. The robot will use gps data to locate the vehicle, and once in place it can be connected and start charging the vehicle. Once the reloading process is complete, a notification will notify the user of the completion of the process, and Echos, once disconnected, can return autonomously to the nearest hub.
- Project Duration and Location
- Echos is a project that emerged in the context of the realization of my master's thesis. The research phase began in November 2021 and ended in September 2022. The whole work was supervised by the architect Alessandra Rinaldi and the engineer Alberto Reatti, who gave me technical, aesthetic and design support. The discussion of the project took place during the graduation in September 2022 at the University of Florence, on the Design Campus of Calenzano.
- Specifications
- Technical characteristics: - Battery: Dimensions: L 363.3 mm x L 453.6 mm x H 210 mm (layout 8x2) Weight: 2,09 Kg Cell Type: Lithium Ferrophosphate Number of cells: 32 Energy: 21,3 kwh - Echos Power supply: direct current (DC) Dimensions: L 500 mm x L 900 mm x H 820 mm Range: 280.8 Wh (about 20 Km) Power supply: 3000 F supercapacitor Motor: 250 W in front wheels Connectors: Ccs Combo2 and chademo Type of driving: autonomous Charging type: wireless/ solar cells Wheels: 10 inches with airless tires
- Keywords
- E-mobility, Electric car, Smart City, Decarbonisation, Smart Mobility, Autonomous Driving, On demand, Robot, Charging, Sustainability
