Zen Energy Optimisation for Electric Car Rental

为了帮助加速向低碳交通的转变(并帮助实现英国政府到2050年实现净零排放的目标)，汽车租赁和车队部门将需要电气化。要做到这一点，汽车租赁公司将需要改变他们的运营方式。例如，由于电动汽车在现场充电，优化电力成本(例如，在非高峰半小时时段充电)将是至关重要的。同样，汽车租赁业务模式需要短时间的车辆扭亏为盈，以保持租赁费用的竞争力。随着企业转向全电动车队，优化充电和鼓励租车者改变行为(例如，如果租车者在高回报时期为汽车充电后再还车，将提供租金折扣)将成为车队管理的关键部分。在这个项目中，三星英国研究院将与节能信托基金、企业汽车租赁英国公司和八达通商业能源公司合作，进行可行性研究，以期于2021年在格拉斯哥机场创建一个全面运营的示范“未来的汽车租赁机构”。可行性研究将评估各种类型的电动汽车充电器、电动汽车和电池存储单元的成本和收益；以及测试尖端的机器学习和人工智能方法，以优化成本和最大限度地减少对环境的影响。我们的目标是展示通过将租赁分支机构的电力合同转换为基于“灵活”可变费率的合同、使用“灵活的”网络连接合同、安装电池存储、优化车辆充电以及鼓励租户改变行为，可以在多大程度上降低运营成本和碳排放。

To help accelerate the shift to low-carbon transport (and help meet the UK Government's goal of net zero emissions by 2050), the car rental and fleet sectors will need to electrify. For this to happen car rental companies will need to change the way they operate. For example, as electric vehicles are charged on-site, optimising electricity costs (e.g. charging during off-peak half-hour periods) will be essential. Similarly, the car rental business model requires a short vehicle turn-around to keep rental charges competitive. As companies move to fully electric fleets, optimisation of charging and encouraging behavioural change in car renters (for example incentivising rental discounts if renters charge the car before returning during periods of high returns) will become a key part of fleet management. In this project Samsung Research UK will work with Energy Saving Trust, Enterprise Car Rentals UK and Octopus Business Energy to conduct a feasibility study into creating a fully operational demonstration "rental car agency of the future" at Glasgow airport in 2021\. The feasibility study will assess the costs and benefits of various types of Electric Vehicle (EV) charger, EVs and battery storage units; as well as testing cutting edge machine learning and Artificial Intelligence approaches to optimising costs and minimising environmental impacts. We aim to show how far operational costs and carbon emissions could be reduced by switching a rental branch's electricity contract to one based on an "agile" variable rate, using "flexible" network connection contracts, installing battery storage, optimising vehicle charging and encouraging behaviour change in renters.