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The 2011 Automotive Winner - CABLED

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The UK’s largest study of its kind has provided a glimpse into how the future could be shaped by electric cars.

The road to electric vehicle (EV) take-up is paved with bad assumptions. Every step of the way, all the stakeholders in EVs – car makers, drivetrain specialists, battery manufacturers and infrastructure developers – have to take into account that an EV is not the same as one powered by an internal combustion engine.What does that imply for the way it’ll be used? How far will people drive? When will they recharge and how long for? And how much of an issue is range anxiety?

You can ask people about this as much as you like, but in the end the answers will be guesswork. So the Coventry and Birmingham Low Emission Demonstrators (CABLED) programme planned to find out in the simplest, most obvious way possible: give a lot of people EVs, make sure they have the equipment necessary to recharge them at home and then see how they get on.

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