Swap-It: Decarbonising last-mile transport with modular battery swap stations

Swap-It：通过模块化电池交换站实现最后一英里运输脱碳

• 批准号: 10076833
• 金额: $ 5.45万
• 依托单位: MOONLIGHT ENERGY LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10076833
• 关键词: Swap; Decarbonising; last; mile; transport

In March 2020, the Department for Transport (DfT) released the first part of its transport decarbonisation Plan (TDP) which sets out the case for action and the scale of the policy gap. The emissions reduction trajectory for 2050 implied by the DfT's analysis is an annual CO2 reduction rate of at least 5 to 6%.Moonlight Energy's mission is to make last-mile transport sustainable and efficient. We provide portable swap battery stations for electric motorcycles and scooters. Our Battery-as-a-Service (BaaS) model for electric motorcycles and scooters is intended to eliminate the worries of charging times and range which are seen as the major roadblocks in the path to EV domination in the two-wheeled market. Our swap stations are small, modular, and efficient and can be scaled up and down to demand. We save over 1.12 kg CO2e per motorcycle per year.Our project will return £20 for every £1 of private and public investment mainly from improved air quality, customer and NHS savings, and the proliferation of new jobs (up to 5000 by 2030) resulting from the rollout of our solution.In this project, we will demonstrate the relevance of battery swapping as a service for fleet operators and highlight the benefits of using our sensors with AI and Machine learning to create a digital twin of our proposed swap battery network to understand how the following factors - charge rate, ambient temperature, speed of the vehicle and load factor affect the performance and efficiency of our batteries.Our solution has multiple environmental, social and economic benefits. Swap-it aids the UK government's commitment to the Climate Change Act (2019) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 100% of 1990 levels by 2050\. By encouraging more local green mobility. Our solution will ensure 1.6 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) savings per annum, equivalent to about 0.3% of the UK's current greenhouse emissions.Swap-It will create value for fleet operators, energy generators, suppliers, and EV owners in excess of £100m by Y5\. We will re-invest at least 30% of our annual earnings into R&D for battery recycling and recovery to limit unsustainable sand mining practices that harm our environment.

2020年3月，运输部（DfT）发布了其运输脱碳计划（TDP）的第一部分，该计划列出了行动的理由和政策差距的规模。根据DfT的分析，2050年的减排轨迹是每年至少减少5%到6%的二氧化碳。月光能源的使命是使最后一英里的交通可持续和高效。我们为电动摩托车和踏板车提供便携式换电池站。我们为电动摩托车和踏板车提供的电池即服务（BaaS）模式旨在消除充电时间和续航里程的担忧，这被视为电动汽车在两轮市场占据主导地位的主要障碍。我们的交换站是小型的，模块化的，高效的，可以根据需求放大或缩小。每辆摩托车每年可减少1.12公斤二氧化碳当量。我们的项目将为每1英镑的私人和公共投资带来20英镑的回报，主要来自改善的空气质量，客户和NHS的储蓄，以及由于我们的解决方案的推出而产生的新工作岗位的激增（到2030年将达到5000个）。在这个项目中，我们将展示电池交换作为一项服务对车队运营商的相关性，并强调使用我们的传感器与人工智能和机器学习来创建我们提议的电池交换网络的数字孪生的好处，以了解以下因素-充电率，环境温度，车辆速度和负载因素如何影响电池的性能和效率。我们的解决方案具有多重环境、社会和经济效益。Swap-it有助于英国政府对《气候变化法案》（2019）的承诺，即到2050年将温室气体排放量至少减少1990年水平的100%。通过鼓励更多的本地绿色交通。我们的解决方案将确保每年节省160万吨二氧化碳当量（CO2e），相当于英国目前温室气体排放量的0.3%。到2020年，Swap-It将为车队运营商、能源生产商、供应商和电动汽车车主创造超过1亿英镑的价值。我们将每年至少30%的收入投入到电池回收和回收的研发中，以限制对环境造成损害的不可持续的采砂作业。