E-Car Club (Mixed-use Electric Vehicle Scheduling System)

E-Car是英国第一个完全电动的按次付费汽车俱乐部，该计划旨在为英国各地精心挑选的社区成员提供按小时以具有竞争力的价格购买全尺寸电动汽车的机会。试点运营于2012年9月开始，已成功运营，完成了600多次旅程，消费者和企业主导的消费者满意度都很高（即车队更换）计划。考虑到企业转向电动汽车的潜在经济和环境效益，长期发展战略包括重点关注车队更换计划。此外，我们已经确定了客户对混合用途模型的兴趣。这些联合收割机组合了免费的用户群，以最大限度地提高资产利用率，例如将工作日的商务使用与晚上和周末的私人使用相结合。然而，为了使这些混合使用模式与电动车队有效地运行，需要一种新的调度模型，该模型允许通过需求匹配，智能车辆分配和自适应充电周期。该概念验证项目旨在迭代开发和试验一种新的调度解决方案，该解决方案将允许车辆在更高的利用率水平下有效分配，同时仍保持必要的可用性水平。在这样做的同时，E-Car将为多达3款新的混合用途车型建立运营先例（企业/社区;理事会/本地企业;该项目的成功完成不仅将使E-Car开始大规模的商业混合用途运营，还将加快商用和个人使用电动汽车的部署，支持英国电动汽车供应链的发展，减少碳和颗粒物排放，并对当地的流动性产生深远的影响。

E-Car is the UK’s first entirely electric pay-per-use car club, developed to provide members ofcarefully selected communities across the UK with access to full-sized electric cars by thehour at a competitive price point.Pilot operations commenced in September 2012 and have proven to be an operational successwith over 600 journeys completed and high levels of consumer satisfaction in both consumerledand business-led (i.e. fleet replacement) schemes. Recognising the underlying economicand environmental benefits for corporates switching to electric vehicles, the long termdevelopment strategy includes a strong focus on fleet replacement schemes. In addition, wehave identified customer interest in mixed-use models. These combine complimentary usergroups to maximise asset utilisation, for instance combining weekday business use withevening and weekend private use.However, for these mixed-use models to operate effectively with an electric fleet, a newscheduling model is required which allows required levels of vehicle availability to bemaintained for both user groups through a combination of demand matching, smart vehicleallocation and adaptive charging cycles.This proof of concept project aims to iteratively develop and trial a new scheduling solutionwhich will allow vehicles to be allocated efficiently at higher utilisation levels whilst stillmaintaining the requisite levels of availability. In doing so E-Car will simultaneously establishoperating precedent for up to 3 new mixed-use models (Corporate/Community; Council/LocalBusiness; Registered Social Landlord/Social Housing Resident).Successful completion of the project will not only allow E-Car to begin commercial mixed-useoperations at scale, but also accelerate deployment of electric vehicles for business andpersonal use, support the development of the UK’s EV supply chain, reduce carbon andparticulate emissions, and have a profound impact on local mobility.