*3.1. Stakeholder Selection*

The goal was to get the deepest possible understanding of the setting being studied. This required identification of participants who could provide information about the particular topic and setting being studied. The stakeholders were selected based on achieving a predetermined number of people from different categories—these categories were aligned to the political, economic, societal and technology forces inherent in the PEST framework. The participants were divided under four categories: Policy, Business, Consumer and Technology. In total there were 38 participants from 20 different organisations, including academia (21%), transport and highway authorities (37%), energy providers (10%), bus operators (3%), solution providers (21%) and vehicle manufacturers (8%).
