Completed Clean Energy Engineering

EV-elocity

Funder InnovateUK (part of UKRI)
Recipient organisation Cenex - Centre of Excellence for Low Carbon and Fuel Cell Technologies Source-published name: Cenex (centre of Excellence for Low Carbon and Fuel Cell Technologies)
Funding £3.9M
Period Apr 2018 — Jan 2022

In plain English

AI plain-English summary

Airport car parks will double as giant batteries, with 100 electric vehicles plugged in and trading their stored power to the grid. This matters because electric vehicle owners currently have no easy way to earn money from their car’s battery when it is parked. The grid also struggles to balance supply and demand without large-scale storage. The project, called EV-elocity, aims to solve both problems by creating business models that let drivers sell power back to the grid through a smartphone app, while aggregating hundreds of vehicles into a single, useful battery resource. If successful, the model could accelerate electric vehicle adoption by turning a car into a revenue-generating asset. The 100-vehicle trial at an airport will test whether the system works at scale, and the technology is designed to work with any car maker. The consortium includes councils, utilities, and car clubs, so the results could inform how local grids, businesses, and consumers share the value of vehicle-to-grid power trading across the UK and internationally.

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This project and our consortium of partners will focus on the business models which will enable the sharing of the value V2G can bring to the grid, local and regional businesses and of course the consumer. Ultimately we are looking to define and test scaleable business models which will link our technology ( existing and new) to a range of new service models. Our partners are ATKearney, Cenex, e-Carclub, Warick University,University of Nottingham, Honda, Slamjam, Nottingham City Council, Leeds City Council, Forward Utility. and a mix of local SME's. We will take an airport such as (Liverpool John Lennon Airport or Gatwick)as our primary demonstrator for 100 EV's connected and parked at the Airport and enable them through our technology to be used as an aggregated battery storage. The consumers of the vehicles will be able to monetise through the trading to the grid and our App will allow them full control of these parameters of trading. The output of the project is to help the current and future EV consumers monetise their investment while accelerating the take up of EV's in UK through this trading monetisation. Our V2G solution will be EV car maker agnostic and will inform the necessary scale from the 100 demonstrator to large scale deployment across the country and Internationally.

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Collaborative R&D

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