We have chosen to use “Electric Vehicle Population Data” for the part 1 of our project .

The dataset
contains information on Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) and Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs)
registered through the Washington State Department of Licensing (DOL) and the dataset consists of
153831 data rows. The primary entity in our ER/ERR diagram is "Vehicle," which includes attributes such
as VIN, Make, Model, Model Year, Base MSRP, and Electric Range. All vehicles in the dataset are classified
as either BEVs or PHEVs.

To represent this in our ER/ERR diagram, we've divided the "Vehicle" entity into two sub-entities: "BEV"
and "PHEV." These sub-entities help us distinguish between these two types of electric vehicles.

The registration of these vehicles occurs through the “Registration Office" entity, and each vehicle is
given a unique identifier attribute, "DOL_ID" . The “Registration Office” has attribute such as DOL ID and
a compound attribute location which has latitude and longitude as attributes .The relationship between
"Vehicle" and "Registration Office" is established as many-to-one relationship , indicating that multiple
vehicles can be registered with each specific “Registration Office” and the Vehicle entity have total
participation as all vehicles need to registered to a Registration office.

Furthermore, each “ Registration Office” is related to the “Location “ entity because each office is
situated in a specific location and the “Location” entity consists of attributes such as State, County, City,
Legislative District, postal Code .The registration office has total participation with the “Location” entity
and the registration office determines the location it is at. The cardinality of “ Registration office” with “
Location” is “many to one” as one location can have many registration offices.

Lastly, each US state has at least one or more Electric Utilities, so “Electric Utility” consists of attributes
such as utility Id and name which is a compound attribute. We establish a many-to-many cardinality
relationship between the “Location” and "Electric Utility" entities. This relationship illustrates that
multiple electric utilities can operate within a single location, and a single electric utility can serve
multiple locations.

In summary, the ER/ERR diagram efficiently represents the dataset, distinguishing between BEVs and
PHEVs, capturing registration details through the “Registration office”, accounting for geographic
distinctions, and depicting the relationships between US locations and electric utilities.

Dataset link : https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/electric-vehicle-population-data .