Wireless Charging in Micro-Fulfilment Centres for Last Mile Delivery

微型配送中心的无线充电用于最后一英里交付

• 批准号: 105429
• 金额: $ 264.32万
• 依托单位: FLEXIBLE POWER SYSTEMS LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=105429
• 关键词: Wireless; Charging; Micro; Fulfilment; Centres

Light Goods Vehicles (LGVs) contribute around 15% of UK greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from road transport and 33% of nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions, whilst making up <10% of vehicles on our roads. Government policy, as described in the Road to Zero report, is for all new van sales to be zero emissions by 2040, and 40% of new vans to be ultra-low emissions by 2030. This will require rapid increases in uptake of electric vans from the current base of around 1500 electric vans out of 370,000 total vans sold in the UK in 2018.EVs differ from diesel vehicles in terms of range, maximum payload, and availability of energy infrastructure. Operational implications for the logistics sector that arise due to these differences are not well understood, outside of a few narrow use cases. In future, autonomous vehicles will also need to be considered, as the removal of driver constraints is likely to change the optimality of solutions to vehicle allocation and routing problems.Wireless Electric Vehicle Charging (WEVC) has the potential to mitigate fleet integration challenges, by making charging sessions quicker to initiate and more easily controlled remotely, which has benefits for opportunity charging. User acceptance by drivers may be helped through timesaving benefits in handling plugs and cables.This project will demonstrate the benefits and costs of WEVC through six principal approaches:i) a hardware demonstration of high power WEVC (22kW) on 4 vans, 2 users, where costs and benefits will be measured;ii) a manufacturing study to understand future capability and costs;iii) simulation of logistics operations using real world data to explore the impact of WEVC;iv) assessment of the network impact of charging/logistic hubs (WEVC-MFCs) enabled by WEVC;v) development of a scheduling tool to solve charging session conflicts;vi) site selection, design and planning (e.g. vendor selection and finance) for a full scale demonstration of the WEVC-MFC concept at the project's conclusion.The project brings together logistics modelling expertise from Heriot-Watt University (HWU) and low carbon and vehicle technology, energy infrastructure and commercial knowledge from Flexible Power Systems (FPS). City of Edinburgh Council (CEC) will participate in the project as a vehicle user and work with FPS and HWU to find follow on sites. Lear Corporation (Lear) will advise on WEVC technology, vehicle integration and long-term price trajectories. Hitachi Vehicle Capital Solutions (HVCS) will support expansion of the engaged customer group.

轻型货车（LGV）约占英国道路运输温室气体（GHG）排放量的15%，氮氧化物（NOx）排放量的33%，同时占道路上车辆的10%。正如《零排放之路》报告所述，政府的政策是到2040年所有新货车销售都要实现零排放，到2030年40%的新货车要实现超低排放。这将需要在2018年英国销售的370，000辆货车中，从目前的约1500辆电动货车的基础上快速增加电动货车的使用量。电动汽车在续航里程、最大有效载荷和能源基础设施的可用性方面与柴油汽车不同。由于这些差异而产生的物流部门的运营影响并没有得到很好的理解，除了一些狭窄的用例之外。在未来，自动驾驶汽车也将需要考虑，因为驾驶员约束的消除可能会改变车辆分配和路由问题的解决方案的最优性。无线电动汽车充电（WEVC）有可能减轻车队整合的挑战，使充电会话更快地启动，更容易远程控制，这对机会充电有好处。该项目将通过六个主要方法来证明WEVC的效益和成本：i）在4辆面包车上进行大功率WEVC（22千瓦）的硬件演示，2个用户，其中成本和效益将被衡量;ii）进行制造研究，以了解未来的能力和成本;iii）使用真实的世界数据模拟物流操作，以探索WEVC的影响; iv）评估充电/物流中心的网络影响（WEVC-MFC）由WEVC启用;v）开发调度工具来解决充电会话冲突; vi）选址，设计和规划（例如，供应商选择和融资）进行WEVC的全面演示-项目结束时的MFC概念。该项目汇集了赫瑞瓦特大学（HWU）的物流建模专业知识以及灵活电力系统（FPS）的低碳和车辆技术、能源基础设施和商业知识。爱丁堡市理事会（CEC）将作为车辆用户参与该项目，并与FPS和HWU合作，寻找后续网站。李尔公司将就WEVC技术、车辆集成和长期价格轨迹提供咨询。Hitachi Vehicle Capital Solutions（HVCS）将为扩大客户群提供支持。