Making EV charging smarter for everyone

Savvy elec­tric vehi­cle (EV) dri­vers are switch­ing onto sav­ings and boost­ing their green cre­den­tials thanks to a unique vehi­cle charg­ing sys­tem.

Soft­ware spe­cial­ists ev.energy have devel­oped an app that opens up the cheap­est charg­ing times from the UK Grid to low­er the ener­gy bills of EV dri­vers and reduce strain on the UK’s ener­gy net­work.

The free cloud-based app auto­mat­i­cal­ly taps into the times when ener­gy is at its cheap­est while also offer­ing vouch­ers as part of a suite of rewards for cus­tomers.

The UK com­pa­ny has devel­oped sophis­ti­cat­ed algo­rithms that track the price of ener­gy which can fluc­tu­ate with demand surges and chang­ing weath­er con­di­tions.

“When you charge your EV real­ly mat­ters because the price of elec­tric­i­ty is affect­ed by weath­er dynam­ics such as wind and solar that gen­er­ate pow­er and can vary con­sid­er­ably,” says William Gold­smith, head of com­mer­cial and grid ser­vices for ev.energy. “Our app is able to under­stand this shift­ing mar­ket and make sure your vehi­cle is being charged dur­ing the cheap­est peri­ods.

“All you do is tell us the car’s bat­tery size, your ener­gy sup­pli­er and the time you need your car charged by and the app takes care of the rest, deliv­er­ing aver­age annu­al sav­ings of £200 for each dri­ver as well as reduc­ing their car­bon emis­sions by 15%.

“It also helps reg­u­late demand on the UK Grid which enables the UK to bring more renew­able ener­gy on stream.”

ev.energy is enjoy­ing rapid growth with more than 23,000 dri­vers using the smart plat­form, includ­ing 5% of Tes­la own­ers who down­loaded the app fol­low­ing ear­ly word-of-mouth rec­om­men­da­tion.

The UK is clos­ing in on hav­ing one mil­lion EVs on the road and they now account for 14.5% of new sales.

How­ev­er, the buoy­ant EV sales mar­ket means a chal­leng­ing increase of ener­gy demand on the UK Grid, which could face an addi­tion­al cost of £2.2 bil­lion for upgrad­ing exist­ing over­head wires and cabling under the streets if smart charg­ing is not adopt­ed. The ev.energy app helps spread the load and min­imise the need for cost­ly infra­struc­ture repairs and upgrades.

“It’s an incred­i­bly pos­i­tive and excit­ing time for motorists as our tech­nol­o­gy is cre­at­ing val­ue for them and the UK Grid,” adds Gold­smith. “The major­i­ty of dri­vers plug in from 6pm to 8am but only need between one to three hours of charg­ing. The app ensures that charg­ing takes place at the cheap­est and green­est off-peak times rather than pro­vid­ing a surge of demand when every­one plugs in at the end of the day.

“We inte­grate with every util­i­ty sup­pli­er across the UK so it is easy to switch on the ben­e­fits from the app. But the best thing about it is that through our solu­tion, EV charg­ing is green­er and cheap­er for every­one.”

ev.energy’s team is full of pow­er indus­try, tech­nol­o­gy and con­sult­ing exper­tise, lead­ing them to win­ning the title of World’s Best Ener­gy Start-up 2019. This know-how has enabled them to take a unique view on a dig­i­tal sys­tem that deliv­ers effi­cien­cy and ease-of-use sav­ings that is known as ‘smart charg­ing’.

“The app pro­vides clear dis­plays of charg­ing ses­sion his­to­ry to make it easy to track at-home and on-the-go charg­ing in one place,” says Gold­smith. “There are clear finan­cial and CO2 emis­sion ben­e­fits from using our smart charg­ing sys­tem and it also helps bal­ance the elec­tric­i­ty grid.

“This is tech­nol­o­gy work­ing for the indi­vid­ual who down­loads the app, plugs in their EV and lets us do the rest. The app, which can be eas­i­ly down­loaded via the App store or Google play, is com­pat­i­ble with all lead­ing EVs and ener­gy sup­pli­ers.

‘It is a sim­ple, effi­cient way to make green­er choic­es and save mon­ey at the same time”.

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