EVT-M3 - Manufacturing the transition to zero emission fleets

EVT-M3项目的重点是制造负担得起的、对气候友好的储能系统，以支持电动汽车充电。EV-TANKER需要这样的储能系统来平滑来自(和流向)电网的电力流动，从而避免非常昂贵的电网升级，从而最大限度地利用来自风力涡轮机和光伏电池板的本地产生的可再生能源。EV-TANKER代表着为电动汽车车队充电的储能技术在可负担性方面的突破，同时具有大约20%的环境足迹，相当于同等的锂离子电池系统。它是基于芝士蛋糕能源有限公司(CEL)的创新设计工作，该公司是诺丁汉大学十多年研究的衍生产品。到目前为止，CEL已经为其设计申请了10项专利，这些设计结合了低成本的热存储、压缩空气能量存储的周转效率，以及机械系统的长寿命和坚固性，在模块化的集装箱包装中创造了一项改变游戏规则的技术。电动加油机的设计已经组装成了第一个最低可行的低压系统。EVT-M3项目将设计空气压缩系统的其余两个阶段，使性能和容量翻一番。它还将“生产”已经完成的低压阶段，降低成本，并准备扩大制造和组装流程，以实现规模经济。随着电动汽车油罐车进入市场，电动汽车充电解决方案提供商将能够将其纳入他们的客户产品中，取代主要基于中国锂离子的产品。预计这将在5年内为英国制造业带来400多个高价值的工作岗位，并在2030年前创造10亿美元的出口机会。车队运营商可以从相同大小的电网中收取双倍的车费，使柴油车车队转变为电动汽车在经济上和技术上都是可行的，否则这是不可能的。它还便于在白天或晚上的任何时间使用现场可再生能源为这些车辆充电。这些好处加在一起，预计仅在2026年发货的电动油轮机组就可以在整个生命周期内节省超过1300万吨的二氧化碳排放，之后制造规模将迅速扩大。

Project EVT-M3 focuses on making affordable and climate-friendly energy storage systems to support EV charging. Such energy storage systems are needed to smooth-out the flows of power from (and to) the electricity grid so that very expensive grid upgrades can be avoided and so that maximum use can be made of locally-generated renewable energy from wind turbines and PV panels.EV-Tanker represents a breakthrough in the affordability of energy storage technology for charging EV fleets whilst having an environmental footprint approximately 20% that of an equivalent lithium-ion battery system. It is based on innovative design work by Cheesecake Energy Ltd (CEL), a spin-out from over a decade of research at University of Nottingham. To date CEL has filed 10 patents for its designs which bring together the low cost of thermal storage, the turnaround efficiencies of compressed air energy storage, together with the long life and robustness of a mechanical system, making a game-changing technology in a modular containerised package.The EV-Tanker designs have been assembled into a first-of-a-kind minimum-viable low-pressure system. The EVT-M3 project will design the remaining two stages of the air compression system, doubling performance and capacity. It will also "productionise" the already completed low-pressure stage, driving out cost and preparing the scale-up of manufacture and assembly processes to reach economies of scale.With EV-Tanker in the market place, EV charging solution providers will be able to incorporate it into their customer offerings displacing mainly Chinese lithium-ion based products. It is expected that this could lead to over 400 high value UK manufacturing jobs within 5 years, and a $1bn export opportunity by 2030\.Fleet operators can charge double the number of vehicles from the same size of grid connection, making the transition of a fleet of diesel vehicles into EVs economically and technically feasible where it would not otherwise be. It also facilitates charging these vehicles using on-site renewable generation at any time of day or night. Taken together these benefits could result in lifetime savings of over 13MT of CO2 emissions from EV-Tanker units anticipated to be shipped in 2026 alone, with manufacturing scaling up rapidly after that.