Charging electric vehicles autonomously using mobile chargers

为了实现英国政府的“零排放之路”目标，以及从2030年开始销售的所有新车都必须是电动汽车的承诺，我们需要考虑对那些没有路边停车位的汽车进行日常充电。在家里给电动汽车充电既简单又方便，但这只适用于那些有足够空间的人。然而，在人口密集的城市，高达60%的家庭没有这一设施。虽然公共充电基础设施在一定程度上满足了这一群体的需求，但仅靠它是不够的。即使每个城市的每个灯柱都变成了充电点，也不足以为每个家庭提供简单可靠的充电选择。我们正在提出一种创新的解决方案，为客户提供完全不干涉的自主服务，接管他们所有的日常充电需求。该服务将使用现成的api连接到每个客户的汽车，并监控其位置、充电状态和里程表。有了这些数据，我们将建立预测模型，以了解每辆车何时需要充电。根据需要，通常在夜间，我们的移动充电车辆将访问车辆并对其进行充电。每天早上，我们的客户醒来时都知道他们的车有足够的电量来使用一天。该项目将证明在城市环境中运营这种服务的可行性；特别是牛津。

To meet the UK government's Road to Zero target and its commitment that all new cars sold from 2030 must be electric, we need to consider day-to-day charging for those without off-street parking.Charging an electric car at home is easy and convenient, but only for those with the space to do so. However, in dense urban populations, up to 60% of households do not have this facility.While public charging infrastructure goes some way to address the needs of this group, it is not enough on its own. Even if every lamppost, in every city, is converted to an electric charging point, it would not be enough to provide easy and reliable charging options for every household.We are proposing an innovative solution to provide a completely hands-off, autonomous service to customers that takes over all of their day-to-day charging needs.The service will connect to each customer's car, using APIs that are readily available, and monitor its location, state of charge and odometer. With this data, we will build predictive models to understand when each car will need charging. As required, and typically at night, one of our mobile charging vehicles will visit the vehicle and charge it in place.Each morning, our customers will wake up knowing that their car has enough charge for the day ahead.This project will demonstrate the feasibility of operating such a service in an urban environment; specifically Oxford.