Wireless Semi-Dynamic Charging for Electric Taxis (WS-CET)

“WS-CET可行性项目将为出租车司机提供证据，证明转向电动汽车对他们的业务产生积极影响，并且由于引入了具有低基础设施和资本成本的颠覆性无电缆充电技术，它将为他们带来更低的每英里成本。该技术可让电动的士司机在停车期间方便地为电池充电，同时排队等候顾客，从而在整个工作日内大幅延长零排放范围，而不会对业务造成任何影响。该系统还将有利于地方当局支持出租车向低排放车辆过渡，并随后减少排放，碳和空气质量问题。创新的充电技术估计成本比替代无线技术低约75%，同时能够支持出租车在出租车等候时估计4倍的充电率。该组合将从几种潜在的收费方法中创建一个可行的商业模式，并将验证其可行性。在可行性范围内，该财团将量化的士使用电动汽车的活动，但也将衡量的士将获得最大收费利益的时间和地点。这将反映在不同的收费机制和定价策略中，这些机制和策略将被审查并与成本相匹配，以实现比传统汽车更低的每英里价格，这将使转向电动汽车对出租车司机来说在经济上也很方便。"

"The WS-CET feasibility project will provide evidence to taxi drivers that switching to electric cars has a positive impact on their business and that it will bring to them a lower cost per mile, thanks to the introduction of a disruptive cable-less charging technology with low infrastructure and capital costs. The proposed technology allows the drivers of electric taxis to conveniently charge their batteries during the downtime while they are queuing in a rank waiting for customers, hence obtaining a significant extended zero emissions range throughout the working day without any impact on business. The system will also be beneficial to local authorities in terms of supporting taxis in the transition to low emission vehicles and the subsequent reduction in emissions, carbon and air quality problems.The innovative charging technology has an estimated cost approximately 75% lower than the alternative wireless technologies, whilst being capable of supporting charging rates of an estimated 4 times while taxis are at taxi ranks. This combination will create a practicable business model from several potential charging methods which will be verified in the feasibility. Within the feasibility, the consortium will quantify the activity of taxis in respect to using EVs but will also measure the time and locations where taxis will gain the maximum charging benefit. This will be reflected in the different charging mechanisms and pricing strategies to be reviewed and matched against the costs to achieve a price per mile lower than that of a conventional car, which would make switching to electric cars also economically convenient for taxi drivers."