Mobile Power’s combined ‘battery-as-a-service’ and ‘vehicle-as-a-service’ business model pilot in rural Nigeria

Mobile Power 在尼日利亚农村地区试点“电池即服务”和“车辆即服务”组合业务模式

• 批准号: 86118
• 金额: $ 320.82万
• 依托单位: MOBILE POWER LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=86118
• 关键词: Mobile; Power; combined; battery; service

Transport in Nigeria is reliant on fuel that is expensive, often poor quality & reliant on government subsidy. Nigeria is Africa's biggest oil producing country but subsidises fuel resulting in a cost to the state.Technical advances in electric vehicles in China and India has seen an explosion in cheap electric motorbikes and electric agricultural tricycles. Africa has the richest renewable energy resources on the planet in the form of solar and biomass. However the issue is power distribution not generation. An innovate battery technology is needed to unlock an electric vehicle revolution in rural Africa.Mobile Power has designed and tested an energy distribution ecosystem that supplies affordable, clean power to poor households and enterprises in off-grid communities across West Africa using a pay-as-you-go smart battery rental system. The core innovation is in the cost-effective distribution of electricity off-grid. Mobile Power's batteries are charged at solar charging stations called "MOPO Hubs". The MOPO Batteries are then rented directly from the Hub or distributed through MOPO Agents using our smart battery technology. Our inbuilt security system prevents unauthorised activation of battery packs and unauthorised charging.This project will focus on the rural Nigeria market providing clean affordable power to 75 villages by:1. REPLACING HOUSEHOLD GENERATORS: The MOPO Batteries provide electricity for households and micro-enterprises for phone charging, lights, TVs, radios and run other DC appliances such as freezers, sewing machines or agricultural machinery.2. IMPROVING RURAL TRANSPORT NETWORKS: The MOPO Batteries will power electric motorbikes and agricultural tricycles, using a battery swap model, renting out the motorbikes and batteries. This rental model makes it affordable to the market - cheaper than fossil-fuel alternatives.BIOMASS PILOT: Our MOPO Hubs will be powered mostly by solar but we will also charge the batteries using electricity generated from cassava waste through the PyroGenesys' PyroPower process. A site has already been identified in Oyo State as a pilot site. This will demonstrate our model with multiple renewable energy sources.Women make up 60-80% of the Nigerian farmers and yet have significantly less access to motorised transport than men. This is associated with typical gender-related roles (greater responsibility for children), gender-related financial and economic situations (less access to money) and gender-related expectations about access to transport. Tearfund Nigeria will work in these 75 communities to provide Transforming Masculinities training that has been proven to improve gender equality and women's access to clean electricity and transport.

尼日利亚的交通依赖于昂贵、质量往往较差且依赖政府补贴的燃料。尼日利亚是非洲最大的石油生产国，但对燃料进行补贴，导致国家成本增加。中国和印度电动汽车技术进步，廉价电动摩托车和电动农用三轮车出现爆炸式增长。非洲拥有地球上最丰富的可再生能源资源，包括太阳能和生物质能。然而，问题是配电而不是发电。非洲农村地区需要创新的电池技术来开启电动汽车革命。Mobile Power 设计并测试了一个能源分配生态系统，该生态系统使用即用即付的智能电池租赁系统，为西非离网社区的贫困家庭和企业提供负担得起的清洁电力。核心创新在于经济高效的离网电力分配。 Mobile Power 的电池在称为“MOPO 集线器”的太阳能充电站充电。然后，可以直接从 Hub 租赁 MOPO 电池，或使用我们的智能电池技术通过 MOPO 代理进行分发。我们内置的安全系统可防止未经授权的电池组激活和未经授权的充电。该项目将重点关注尼日利亚农村市场，通过以下方式为 75 个村庄提供清洁、负担得起的电力：1。取代家用发电机：MOPO 电池为家庭和微型企业提供电力，用于手机充电、灯、电视、收音机以及运行其他直流电器，如冰箱、缝纫机或农业机械。2。改善农村交通网络：MOPO 电池将为电动摩托车和农用三轮车提供动力，采用电池交换模式，出租摩托车和电池。这种租赁模式使其价格适合市场 - 比化石燃料替代品更便宜。BIOMASS PILOT：我们的 MOPO 中心将主要由太阳能供电，但我们也将通过 PyroGenesys 的 PyroPower 流程​​使用木薯废物产生的电力为电池充电。奥约州已确定一个地点作为试点地点。这将展示我们的多种可再生能源模型。女性占尼日利亚农民的 60-80%，但获得机动交通的机会明显少于男性。这与典型的性别相关角色（对儿童承担更大的责任）、与性别相关的金融和经济状况（获得金钱的机会较少）以及对交通的性别相关期望有关。尼日利亚泪水基金将在这 75 个社区提供“男性气质转变”培训，这些培训已被证明可以改善性别平等以及妇女获得清洁电力和交通的机会。