Project Summary

This project will develop a technology that analyses patterns on how charging stations are accessed in different areas and at different times of day, and forecasts future demand for public charging.

Project Achievements

Activities This project helped us transform our early-stage technology into a minimum viable product. We developed our existing prototype further and integrated a cloud architecture services. We developed the testing environment and analysis tools to benchmark our prediction algorithms. Through the TRIG 2021 programme we carried out system-wide tests using publicly available data. We tested our prediction algorithm against real-time data published in this database. We now share these predictions on our cloud user interface, where users can access freely and interact with our demo.

Conclusions

We strongly believe that delivering a good public charging infrastructure requires all relevant stakeholders to work together. In this regard, our intelligence that we generate through our cloud platform aims to help reducing the amount of charging infrastructure on the ground whilst ensuring reliable, resilient and convenient charging access by drivers. UK is expected to deploy up to 200,000 more chargers in the next 10 years. Based on the trials we ran during the TRIG 2021 programme, we estimate that our algorithm could save up to 24,000 chargers from being deployed unnecessarily.

Next Steps

We are gearing up to launch a stand-alone prototype for our first product in late 2022. We have been receiving great feedback and enthusiasm about this product and we are looking forward to demonstrating the value of our technology to our stakeholders and future customers later this year. We have been speaking with various stakeholders including prospective customers and investors. The evidence we collected through our talks suggests there is a clear interest in our product both from potential users and potential investors.