UCD and Imperial pair up for DC charging venture

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University College Dublin and Imperial College London have secured £3m in seed financing for their electric vehicle DC charging startup, Go Eve.

Go Eve

The company’s technology centres around what it calls ‘DockChain’, which allows multiple vehicles to daisy-chain power from a single high-powered DC charger. Rapid DC chargers can generally only service one or two cars at a time, limiting their practicality. Go Eve’s software enables several cars to access DC power at the same time or in sequence, controlled by the company’s proprietary software. The company says it completed a successful pilot installation at the Imperial campus last November.

Go Eve was co-founded by Hugh Sheehy, John Goodbody, Professor Robert Shorten, Dr Pietro Ferraro and Andrew Cullen in 2021. The technology was originally developed by a team of academics and researchers led by Professor Shorten at the UCD School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Shorten subsequently moved to the Dyson School of Design Engineering at Imperial where the technology was further advanced by him and his team. The company has offices in Dublin and London.

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