Apartment Block EV Charging Feasibility

Mina和Evergreen Smart Power希望尽可能普及家用电动汽车充电，以鼓励人们使用零排放汽车。家庭充电是让电动汽车充满电的最好方式——它便宜、干净、方便——但这意味着，如今绝大多数拥有路边停车位的房主都在考虑购买电动汽车。在过去的几年里，随着新的商业模式逐渐出现，对那些拥有排屋的人进行街头收费一直是研究的主要焦点，但对公寓楼的关注相对较少——在英国，有900万人住在公寓里，这是一个我们不能忽视的人口结构。在公寓楼里充电充满了挑战：居民没有自己的停车位，即使安装了电动汽车充电器（在今天这是一个昂贵的过程），也要由大楼管理部门来支付电费，而充电成本是一个大多数人都回避的后勤挑战。此外，许多居民（约40%）是租户，他们自然没有兴趣为一个他们可能只使用很短时间的停车场提供昂贵的充电点资产。同样，由于租户没有电动汽车，在没有巨大需求的情况下，房东也不愿为这项资产提供资金：这是一个先有鸡还是先有蛋的问题。Mina和Evergreen Smart Power正在开发一项革命性的新业务，该业务将使人们能够租用一个充电点作为他们的停车位，为他们提供比公共基础设施更便宜，更方便的充电，自动执行智能充电以平衡更广泛的网络并尽可能多地使用可再生能源，并与建筑经理处理所有付款和结算。我们相信这是可以做到的，而且很快就能做到，但它需要进一步的建模、评估和原型设计，以说服资助者和设施管理人员，有一个可持续的商业案例，满足各方的需求，并将长期有效。这项可行性研究的目的是建立商业案例和必要的智能硬件和软件集成的原型，以说服建筑物投资这项技术，并消除阻碍其居民考虑电动汽车的障碍之一。

Mina and Evergreen Smart Power want to make home electric vehicle charging as widely available as possible to encourage uptake of zero-emission vehicles.Home charging is much the best way to keep an electric car topped up - it's cheap, it's clean, it's convenient - but this means that today it is overwhelmingly homeowners with off-street parking who are considering purchasing an EV.On-street charging for those with terraced housing has been a major focus of research over the last few years with new business models gradually emerging, but there has been comparatively little attention paid to apartment blocks - and with 9 million people living in flats in the UK this is a demographic we cannot ignore.Charging in an apartment block is full of challenges: residents do not own their parking space, and even if an EV charger is installed (an expensive process today) it is the building management who pay for its electricity and recharging the cost of electricity is a logistical challenge most are shying away from.Also, many (~40%) of residents are tenants, and naturally have no interest in funding an expensive chargepoint asset for a car park they may only spend a short period of time using. Landlords are similarly reluctant to fund the asset while there is no great demand because tenants do not have EVs: it is a chicken-and-egg problem.Mina and Evergreen Smart Power are developing a revolutionary new business which will enable people to rent a chargepoint for their parking space for as long as they need it, providing them with access to cheaper, more convenient charging than public infrastructure, automatically performing smart charging to balance the wider network and use renewable energy as much as possible, and handling all the payments and settlement with the building manager.We believe this can be done, and done soon, but it requires further modelling, evaluation, and prototyping to persuade funders and facilities managers that there is a sustainable business case that meets each party's needs and will work in the long-term.The objective of this feasibility study is to build the business case and prototype the necessary smart hardware and software integrations to persuade buildings to invest in this technology and remove one of the barriers preventing their residents from considering an EV.