Flywheel Fast Charging Station for Electric Vehicles

电动汽车飞轮快速充电站

• 批准号: 971707
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: LEVISTOR LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Small Business Research Initiative
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=971707
• 关键词: Flywheel; Fast; Charging; Station; Electric

Gyrotricity is helping to address Highways England's challenge of how to reinforce the local electricity network on their Strategic Road Network to cope with increased future demand from electric vehicle (EV) charging without excessive cost. This is a nationwide problem. A recent House of Commons report estimated enhancements to the UK's electricity network to cope with the electrification of transport could cost up to £16 billion.Planning for local electricity network reinforcement is difficult because the rate of uptake of EVs cannot be accurately forecast. The problem becomes more acute as fast charging becomes more common. Vehicles that today require 7 or 22kW of AC power to charge will gradually be joined by vehicles that require 150 - 400kW DC. Because no one can predict when all this will happen, a low cost and modular way to reinforce local electricity networks near fast charging stations, as needed, will be desirable. Gyrotricity will directly address this problem.The use of flywheels, or 'kinetic energy storage,' specifically addresses super-fast energy transfer to compliment base load energy supplied by the grid, batteries, etc. Installed on forecourts near EV charging points, they build charge slowly when there is no demand and then dump that energy at high speed into an EV at a lower cost than batteries and with no thermal problems, no fire risk, very long life and easy recyclability. In effect, flywheels buffer high peak electricity demand and unburden the grid from having to provide sudden power peaks that incur both high capital and operating costs.Gyrotricity is developing breakthrough flywheel performance that addresses traditional safety, cost and power loss issues. Working with centres of research excellence at a number of UK universities, Gyrotricity is ensuring that the best technology available in the UK will go into a world leading product that addresses the next phase of roading electrification and power management.

Gyrotricity正在帮助解决英格兰高速公路的挑战，即如何加强其战略道路网络上的当地电力网络，以科普未来电动汽车（EV）充电需求的增加，而无需过多的成本。这是一个全国性的问题。英国下议院最近的一份报告估计，为科普交通电气化而加强英国电网的费用可能高达160亿英镑。由于无法准确预测电动汽车的普及率，因此很难规划地方电网的加强。随着快速充电变得越来越普遍，这个问题变得更加尖锐。目前需要7或22千瓦交流电源充电的车辆将逐渐加入需要150 - 400千瓦直流电源的车辆。由于没有人能预测这一切何时发生，因此需要一种低成本和模块化的方式来加强快速充电站附近的当地电网。回旋将直接解决这个问题。使用飞轮，或“动能存储”，专门解决超快速能量传输，以补充电网，电池等提供的基本负载能量。安装在电动汽车充电点附近的前院，当没有需求时，它们慢慢充电，然后以比电池更低的成本将能量高速倾倒到电动汽车中，并且没有热问题，无火灾危险，使用寿命长，易于回收。实际上，飞轮缓冲了高峰电力需求，并减轻了电网必须提供突然的电力峰值的负担，这些峰值会导致高资本和运营成本。Gyrotricity正在开发突破性的飞轮性能，以解决传统的安全性，成本和功率损耗问题。Gyrotricity与英国多所大学的卓越研究中心合作，确保英国现有的最佳技术将成为世界领先的产品，解决下一阶段的道路电气化和电力管理问题。