Sustainable Innovation Apps

The Laddbil app is intended for you whotodaydrive an electric car or hybrid and for you who think aboutgettingone. With the app you will get a sense of how much carbonmonoxideyou avoid emitting into the athmosphere compared to anothervehicletype than the vehicle you are driving, and how much you saveorlose on this in terms of cost for the current vehicle. Laddbilispart of a swedish campaign Bilel driven by SustainableInnovationAB (sust), Fortum (swedish energy provider) andGothenburg cityelectricity, supported by the swedish Energyauthority, with thepurpose to increase awareness of the benefits ofelectric/hybrid.On the home page http://www.laddbil.se we sum uphow much carbonmonoxide emission is avoided by all who drive anelectric car orhybrid, using Laddbil to record their trips. At thesite (swedish)you can find more information and discuss electricvehicles.Laddbil can be used while driving a vehicle to record yourtrip andprovides a realtime comparison of fuel consumption andemissions,and how much you save or lose in cost compared to asecondcomparison vehicle type chosen. You can later view therecordedtrip in Google Maps and see trip results.Android phone prerequisites: Android 2.3.3 oraboverequired.You need internet access via SIM-kort or Wifi for the GoogleMapspresentation to work. The phone needs to have the Google Playappinstalled (parts of Google Maps code comes with it). You needafairly recent version of the Facebook app installed in order tobeable to use the Facebook friends sharing feature.GPS usage: If you have started the recording of a trip youcanthen place the Laddbil app in the background (suspend) or quititall together and the recording will still continue as abackgroundservice activity. Only by pressing the Stop button inLaddbil canyou terminate a trip recording session. If you forget toend therecording after your trip is over you might experience thebatteryoperating time reduced due to the processing.If the Laddbil app is not active on screen you can stillcheckthe status of a background recording task by looking in thephonedrop down status panel and also launch the app from there toseedetails of any ongoing recording session.Keep in mind to have the phone out in the open during the triptoget good exposure to satellites for the best GPS reception. Youcanmake conclusions about receiving GPS data from looking atthedistance indication. If it increments it means you are movingandthe phone picks up GPS location events.