• Organisation: TAFE NSW

• Target Audience: First responders

• Platforms: TAFE NSW Microskills Website

Electric vehicles (EVs) are becoming more common on our roads, and it's crucial for first responders to be equipped with the knowledge to handle situations when things go wrong. Understanding and managing these hazards will help minimize risks to responders and the community, fostering confidence in new technologies. This animation sits within a bigger course and plays the role of introducing the main hazards and risks at electric Vehicle incidents.

We started with a narrative of driver losing control on a desert road, setting the scene for various dangers and risks that a first responder would face when arriving to this situation. The rest of the film is broken down into chapters running the learner through the key risks and how they are unique to electric vehicles. 

The course material can be quite technical and dry so we wanted to complement it with some character. We decided on a stylish cartoon approach where the seriousness of the situations are rendered clearly with electric current, flames and smoke. We wanted the information to be clear even without the voice over so we developed a clear language of icons drawing on universally understood symbols to represent hazards and technical information. It was a lot of fun to learn about the whole process, we hope you like it too.