eMobility for Kids—A New Learning Workshop for 12–15 Year Olds

Electric mobility plays a key role in promoting climate-friendly transportation. Beyond technical development, the transition to electric mobility critically depends on early understanding, acceptance, and system literacy among future users and engineers. This manuscript positions hands-on engineering education as a complementary contribution to electric vehicle research. It demonstrates how core EV concepts can be introduced to children aged 12–15 through a structured, construction-based learning format. Many school students have had little opportunity to explore energy and electricity through hands-on learning. The eMobility for Kids (eM4K) workshop integrates the assembly and operation of light electric vehicles with curriculum-aligned physics instruction. The instructional focus includes vehicle kinematics as well as fundamental concepts of electricity and energy. Over a two-day course, students build a four-wheeled electric vehicle in small teams and apply their understanding through guided driving and reflection activities. Results from multiple workshop implementations between 2023 and 2025 are presented. In addition, a short exploratory snapshot survey was conducted in parallel among participating school students. The results provide indicative insights into attitudes toward future individual electric mobility, including interest in driving a small electric vehicle at the age of 15. To the authors’ knowledge, this study represents one of the first documented and systematically described educational approaches. It explores the use of real electric vehicle systems in hands-on learning for school students.