Project Summary

The project aims to advance critical components central to delivering a mobile phone app to offer an individual’s electric vehicle assessment over an internal combustion engine car. By differentiating between public and private transit choices, it can accurately single out and analyse their ICE trips.

Project Achievements

Activities • Milestone and project planning with partners • Prep of recruitment material & users • Validating ICE trip and battery analysis tech • Iterative software development • Final report findings and exploitation Successfully launched EVCurious app on Apple and Google. Cardiff Uni and Glasgow are studies provided over 500 users generated 91K trips, 5K by public transport and 25K by car. Invaluable engagement with leaders in EV space (inc. manufacturers, vehicle leasing, battery experts, public EV networks, home EV installers). rightsize and prioritise new EV sites. EVCurious sets out to answer this trifecta with data, deeptech automation, mass personalisation and the scale of smartphones.

Conclusions

Impact: Successfully validated with EV industry, field tested with consumers and advanced IP from TRL2/3 to TRL 5/6/7. Analysis of test users: • 90% total daily car trips <100km (76% drivers) • 64% total weekly car <150k, 71% <200km • Fast chargers just <24% radium of 7km • Ultra-fast just <2% within 7km, 95% >150km Conclusion: Big gaps with rapid and ultra EV chargers; more EV battery sizes should be encouraged; users were happy to leave EVCurious app running in the long term.

Next Steps

Research: Consumer ready interface to make TRL7/8 ready, and launch direct to B2C. Feasibility Study: How payload impact Light Commercial Vehicle (LCV) EV range. Simulation feature a request from SME financing co. Serves new segment analyses to expand market size. Commercial: In next 3-5 months find a commercial sponsor, and Pilot with a target commercial client (EV manufacturer, vehicle leasing, EV Battery makers, public EV networks, home EV installers). Need to consider how industry can engage with data, create dashboard. Also secure investment.