EVT-M3 - Manufacturing the transition to zero emission fleets

EVT-M3项目的重点是制造经济实惠的气候友好型储能系统，以支持电动汽车充电。这样的储能系统需要平滑电网的电力流动，从而避免非常昂贵的电网升级，从而最大限度地利用当地风力涡轮机和光伏电池板产生的可再生能源。EV- tanker代表了电动汽车充电储能技术的可承受性的突破，同时其环境足迹约为同等锂离子电池系统的20%。它是基于Cheesecake能源有限公司（CEL）的创新设计工作，该公司是诺丁汉大学十多年研究的副产品。到目前为止，CEL已经为其设计申请了10项专利，这些设计结合了低成本的储热，压缩空气储能的周转效率，以及机械系统的长寿命和坚固性，在模块化集装箱包装中创造了一种改变游戏规则的技术。EV-Tanker的设计已经组装成首个最小可行的低压系统。EVT-M3项目将设计空气压缩系统的剩余两个阶段，使其性能和容量加倍。它还将使已经完成的低压阶段“产品化”，降低成本，并为扩大制造和组装工艺规模做好准备，以实现规模经济。随着EV- tanker进入市场，电动汽车充电解决方案提供商将能够将其纳入其客户产品中，取代主要来自中国的锂离子电池产品。预计这将在5年内为英国创造400多个高价值制造业岗位，到2030年将创造10亿美元的出口机会。车队运营商可以从相同规模的电网连接中收取两倍的车辆数量，这使得柴油车队向电动汽车的转变在经济和技术上都是可行的，否则这是不可能的。它还有助于在白天或晚上的任何时间使用现场可再生能源为这些车辆充电。综合这些优势，预计仅在2026年交付的电动油罐车就可以节省超过1300万吨的二氧化碳排放，此后生产规模将迅速扩大。

Project EVT-M3 focuses on making affordable and climate-friendly energy storage systems to support EV charging. Such energy storage systems are needed to smooth-out the flows of power from (and to) the electricity grid so that very expensive grid upgrades can be avoided and so that maximum use can be made of locally-generated renewable energy from wind turbines and PV panels.EV-Tanker represents a breakthrough in the affordability of energy storage technology for charging EV fleets whilst having an environmental footprint approximately 20% that of an equivalent lithium-ion battery system. It is based on innovative design work by Cheesecake Energy Ltd (CEL), a spin-out from over a decade of research at University of Nottingham. To date CEL has filed 10 patents for its designs which bring together the low cost of thermal storage, the turnaround efficiencies of compressed air energy storage, together with the long life and robustness of a mechanical system, making a game-changing technology in a modular containerised package.The EV-Tanker designs have been assembled into a first-of-a-kind minimum-viable low-pressure system. The EVT-M3 project will design the remaining two stages of the air compression system, doubling performance and capacity. It will also "productionise" the already completed low-pressure stage, driving out cost and preparing the scale-up of manufacture and assembly processes to reach economies of scale.With EV-Tanker in the market place, EV charging solution providers will be able to incorporate it into their customer offerings displacing mainly Chinese lithium-ion based products. It is expected that this could lead to over 400 high value UK manufacturing jobs within 5 years, and a $1bn export opportunity by 2030\.Fleet operators can charge double the number of vehicles from the same size of grid connection, making the transition of a fleet of diesel vehicles into EVs economically and technically feasible where it would not otherwise be. It also facilitates charging these vehicles using on-site renewable generation at any time of day or night. Taken together these benefits could result in lifetime savings of over 13MT of CO2 emissions from EV-Tanker units anticipated to be shipped in 2026 alone, with manufacturing scaling up rapidly after that.