Project Summary

Diode’s Shared Survey Platform allows for just a single survey to be carried out, with the results shared with multiple installers. This minimizes the time, cost and carbon of charge point installs, optimizes installer capacity, and lets installers of all sizes benefit from the EV transition.

Project Achievements

Activities Our project was developed and tested in the following six steps: 1. Identified and onboarded two installers from our existing network 2. Designed the Shared Survey prototype 3. Feedback loops 4. Tested the final survey prototype with a real customer 5. Designed the user interface and built the back-end software 6. Built the user interfaces and back-end processes

Conclusions

The conclusion of this project is we’ve delivered against out best-case scenario, meaning we have a fully developed software product ready for a live test environment and commercialisation. It has been estimated that the UK will require 1.2m workplace charge points by 2023 – that’s 2500 per week. Shared survey will allow efficient use of our installation capacity and eliminate the burden of site surveys, which will give us the best chance of ensuring sufficient charge points are installed in time for 2030.

Next Steps

1. Live testing environment across a variety of installation types with the following installers: Scottish Power, Mr Charger and ChargedEV. 2. Create a suitable commercial model which makes the realised savings transparent, whilst passing a portion onto the surveyor. 3. Establish an operations strategy. Surveyors could be from our existing network of installation partners, specialist surveying companies, an in-house team or a blend of all three.