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Project to show fleet operators symbiotic benefits of EVs

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Large fleet operators could swap diesel for electric delivery vehicles following a new one-year project that aims to demonstrate the benefits of smart charging.

Scheduled to start in May, 2020, the EV Fleet-Centred Local Energy Systems (EFLES) project is aimed at optimising logistics companies’ growing electric vehicle (EV) fleets, with the added benefits of cutting carbon emissions, air pollution and energy costs.

Innovation is key to resolving increasing grid demand

The project is being led UK Power Networks Services, alongside Moixa, the smart charging specialist, logistics company UPS, the not-for-profit Cross River Partnership, and Innovate UK.

Moixa intend to show how its GridShare artificial intelligence (AI) software can maximise the cost and carbon savings from EVs. GridShare will analyse hundreds of data sources at UPS’ Camden depot – including energy prices, power demand and the weather – to optimise EV charging, as well as power supply and demand in order to demonstrate how to effectively cut costs. Vehicles will be able to charge when power is cheapest and cleanest by using onsite energy storage and solar at the most cost-effective times.

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