EVWay | Devpost

Inspiration 🌱

We have seen many rentals for bicycles, but what if there is a much longer trip required?
What if you'd want to use your electric vehicle in combination with other vehicles in case there is a chance that you'd have to travel far?
Imagine getting incentives to promote use of EV vehicles for renting out your own? 👀
Hence we introduce to you EVWay, an all-in-one rental and journey planner to make transportation more accessible and eco-friendly
The inspiration arose when we learned that riding EV vehicle has almost no limitations nor has bad consequences
In fact, riding low power EVs is permitted without a license which makes it super convenient for students too

Our platform is powered by Redis and has the following features to offer:

Half - Rental Service

Want to ride on your own vehicle but don't have enough charge/ no EV stations nearby?
Use the half rental service that allows you to use others vehicles mid-journey and book multiple of these vehicles
Incentives for people who rent out their vehicles through credit points
The credit points are redeemable into cash, anytime a renter charges the vehicle at hand, they also get extra credits after a two-way verification!

Full - Rental Service

If you don't own an EV Vehicle at all, no worries! The full rental service aids in renting out vehicles in different packages
- Day Rentals
- Weekly Rentals
- Monthly Rentals
- Custom Rentals
This way you can drive worry free to a destination especially feasible for students
You can also choose to book for multiple days in multiple packages simultaneously!

Profile Manager

Either when you are renting or using any sort of facility, it is important that the documentations and paperwork are easily available at hand
Hence, we made sure to collect necessary vehicle documentation papers to avoid future inconveniences
Whenever a certain certificate is expiring, our platform will ensure you get reminded of the same
You can also see the credit points you have earned thus far and also redeem from this section

Journey Maps

Your journeys and the journey of your vehicles are recorded for security purposes
Any sort of problem in either your vehicle or the one you rented before needs to be tracked down, which can be done so using the journey maps feature
This not only ensures the platform is reliable for others to use but also that the renters do not have to worry with tampering of their vehicles

Safety Information

A lot of laws around EVs and general precautions and practices aren't well-defined
This does lead to a lot of confusion around eligibility to drive around and also questions on what is acceptable and what is not
To eradicate such problems, we added all the necessary information we could possibly find that one can go through to ensure there is safety and information regarding the same

We have leveraged Redis and Redis Stack a lot in our project.
The Redis Cloud offering has eased out a lot of the tedious setup processes, firewall configuration and much more stuff off the heads of the developers.
The Redis Stack has been very useful for us, the fuzzy searching, the Redis Bloom and Redis Search offerings.
We have used the Redis OM library for mapping objects to the data structure.
We leveraged the Redis JSON Capabilities to query the data more efficiently at the cost of some storage space.
Authentication metadata is also stored on redis, making the authentication flow very fast and it takes just a few milliseconds.
Redis stack is also integrated into the tRPC stack so that it is easy to fetch data from external services.

We had pretty less time considering all of us were busy on both Friday and Saturday
Designing exactly to user needs felt quite challenging, since we really liked the idea but we ourselves didn't own an EV (though we wish to)
Integrating Redis was especially not easy considering the project design we were aiming for, but we made it work in the end
A lot of the challenges mainly stemmed from time management, we were unable to get ourselves to complete certain modules on time

Being able to power our platform with a powerful technology like Redis
Despite having lesser time, we were able to make a fully functional project
Designing and implementing a project that we hope to scale in the future, we personally fell in love with the idea of having EV rentals especially considering the ease of use and convenience for the same

User centric design, which was definitely not easy, especially ensuring the aesthetics and functionality of the project went along together was hard
We actually got educated about EVs doing this project, the models that are available, how they impact the environment, the laws and limitations and much more
Redis, we learned to use, integrate Redis in probably the best way possible!

We hope to scale it through physical stations for the full rental service feature
Digitized documentation for all the documentations at hand for the vehicles
A possibility to book riders along the way 👀
A mobile app that would be more convenient for the user,