Resilience Fund support for added costs in project 106188 due to Covid-19

Hypervolt的使命是以最低的成本在市场上广泛采用电动汽车，为实现低碳运输和能源目标做出贡献。预计到2025年，30%的新车销售将是电动汽车，到2030年，预计40%的家庭将拥有充电器，电动汽车有望成为国内最大的电力需求来源。国家电网预测，到2050年，全系统电动汽车的额外峰值需求将达到6至18吉瓦。这在电网整合成本方面带来了巨大的经济风险，因为今天的电动汽车充电器部署是有机的，由用户偏好指导，很少考虑当地电网的影响。领先的“智能”选择提供打包充电器+关税解决方案，但非高峰充电激励是基于国家价格信号的，因此对于一个全国性但高度本地化的问题来说，这是不够细致的。之前的创新项目得出的结论是，当40- 70%的家庭拥有电动汽车（10年后）时，32%的中低压馈线将需要升级或更换，成本为22亿英镑。因此，面临的挑战是如何在不增加电网整合成本的情况下使电动汽车在市场上得到广泛采用。Hypervolt试图通过提供增强型充电点解决方案来解决这一问题，该解决方案可以更好地将电动汽车充电与电力系统的要求结合起来，并在全国范围内更好地满足当地系统的要求。这个由英国Innovate资助的项目支持原型的进一步开发，以在该领域部署技术试点试验。项目成果将验证新技术特性，测试最终用户的接受程度，并为商业化的商业模式提供信息。在规模上，Hypervolt颠覆性的定价结构和突破性的产品功能将加速大众市场对电动汽车充电点的吸收，即使是在电网受限的地区，同时限制基础设施投资成本，概述了一个比现状更具可扩展性和适用性的解决方案，以解决市场范围广泛但高度本地化的问题。

Hypervolt's mission is to enable market-wide adoption of EVs at least cost, contributing to low carbon transport and energy targets. 30% of new vehicle sales are forecasted to be electric vehicles (EVs) by 2025, and 40% of households are expected to have chargers by 2030, putting EVs on track to become the largest source of domestic electricity demand. National Grid forecasts additional system-wide peak demand from EVs of 6 to 18GW in 2050\. This presents a significant economic risk in grid integration costs, as EV charger deployment today is organic, directed by user preference with little consideration of local grid impacts. Leading 'smart' options offer packaged charger + tariff solutions, but off-peak charging incentives are based on national price signals, and as such are insufficiently granular for a problem that is nationwide but highligly localised. Unabated, previous innovation programmes concluded that 32% of medium and low voltage feeders will require upgrading or replacement when 40--70% of households have EVs (10 years from now) costing \\\>£2.2bn. The challenge is therefore how to enable market-wide adoption of EVs without adding significant integration costs on the grid.Hypervolt seeks to address this problem by delivering an enhanced chargepoint solution that better aligns EV charging with the requirements of the electricity system, and better accounts for local system requirements within a national context. This Innovate UK-funded project supports the further development of a prototype to deploy a technology pilot trial in the field. Projects outcomes will validate new technology features, test end user acceptance, and inform the business model for commercialisation. At scale, Hypervolt's disruptive pricing structure and groundbreaking product features will enable accelerated mass-market uptake of EV chargepoints even in grid-constrained areas whilst limiting infrastructure investment costs, outlining a solution both more scalable and suitable than the status quo to a problem that is market-wide but highly localised.