DoorSTEP - Onstreet charging on your DoorSTEP (Subsurface Technology for Electric Pathways)

目前，超过95%的电动汽车（EV）充电是通过位于车道和车库等非街道位置的私人家庭充电器完成的。非街道充电很方便，因为汽车通常停在主人的房子外面，可以在晚上充电。它之所以便宜，还因为国内电力供应的好处，在灵活的电价下，在非高峰时期，成本低至每千瓦时5便士。相比之下，没有路边停车位的电动汽车司机必须使用公共充电器，通常价格超过30便士/千瓦时。虽然在某些情况下，将公共充电纳入日常生活很容易，但对大多数人来说，这仍然是采用电动汽车的一个重大障碍。特洛伊能源公司正在开发新的充电点技术，作为解决这一问题的门阶项目的一部分。他们的系统将允许任何经常把车停在街道上的人在他们的房子前面安装自己的充电点，连接到他们的家庭电力供应。充电技术安装在路面下方，有一个扁平的连接器，用户可以用特洛伊木马“长矛”将其连接到汽车上。当充电完成时，枪被移除，所以当汽车不充电时，街道上不会留下杂物。任何有枪的人都可以连接到这个系统，所以主人可以选择让朋友、家人和公众都可以使用这个充电点。业主可以参与数字市场，将价格设定在与其他公共替代品竞争的水平。因此，随着时间的推移，车主可以收回安装成本，而其他所有人都可以从离家近的低成本便捷充电中受益。英国各地的地方当局都认识到需要这种解决方案，以确保那些没有路边停车位的人可以充电。随着电动汽车的广泛采用，许多国家已经宣布了气候紧急情况，并正在努力确保充足的充电可用性。作为这些努力的一部分，布伦特和牛津郡议会已同意与特洛伊合作开发门阶技术。东洛锡安将作为合作伙伴。这项技术将在两个合作委员会的几个家庭和企业外进行试验，以协助技术的发展，并创建和实施有效的规划程序，以便在公共道路上安装私人拥有的充电基础设施。这将使该技术成为可以在全国推广的大众市场产品。

Currently, over 95% of electric vehicle (EV) charging is done through private home chargers at off-street locations such as driveways and garages. Off-street charging is convenient as cars are typically parked outside the owner's house and can charge up overnight. It is also cheap because of benefits from a domestic electricity supply that, with flexible tariffs, can cost as little as 5p/kWh during off-peak periods. By comparison, EV drivers without off-street parking must use publicly available chargers typically costing more than 30p/kWh. While in some cases it is easy to incorporate public charging into daily routines, for most people this remains a significant barrier to EV adoption.Trojan Energy are developing new chargepoint technology as part of the DoorSTEP project to address this problem. Their system will allow anyone who usually parks on-street to install their own chargepoint in front of their house, connected to their domestic electricity supply. The charging technology is installed below the pavement, with a flat and flush connector which the user connects to their car with a Trojan 'lance'. The lance is removed when charging is complete, so no clutter is left in the street when the car is not charging.Anyone with a lance could connect to the system, so the owner can choose to make the chargepoint accessible to friends, family, and members of the public. Owners can participate in a digital marketplace, setting the price at a level that is competitive with other public alternatives. As a result, the owner can recover the cost of the installation over time and everyone else benefits from access to low-cost convenient charging close to their home.Local authorities across the UK recognise the need for this solution to ensure that charging is available to those without off-street parking. Many have declared climate emergencies and are working hard to ensure sufficient charging availability as EVs are adopted more widely. As part of these efforts, Brent and Oxfordshire councils have agreed to partner with Trojan to develop the DoorSTEP technology. East Lothian will act as an associate partner. The technology will be trialled outside several homes and businesses across the two partner councils, to assist with development of the technology and to create and implement effective planning procedures for installing privately owned charging infrastructure on public pavements. This will allow the technology to become a mass market product that can be rolled out across the country.