Electric Nation trial participants have been given the opportunity to interact with smart charging systems through apps; early findings show that smart charging override is an important function, but only for a minority of EV drivers. Over spring and summer, 248 Electric Nation trial participants have been given the opportunity to interact with the GreenFlux […]
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Smart chargers are now installed for the EVs of all participants and Electric Nation moves into final phase of learning from the trial Smart charging can be a key solution to the impact of increasing numbers of EVs on the electricity network The Electric Nation project has installed its final smart charger as part of […]
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Western Power Distribution has produced an animated video about the growth of electric vehicles and smart charging which can be viewed on the Electric Nation home page: www.electricnation.org.uk The video explains how more of us are moving from driving petrol and diesel vehicles to driving electric vehicles, as lower costs and air quality concerns in […]
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Electric Nation was represented on the DriveElectric stand at Robert Llewellyn’s Fully Charged LIVE event at Silverstone, 9-10 June 2018. Electric Nation’s Smart Charging Summary Guide (available in our Resources section) was available on the DriveElectric stand, which also featured BBC Radio 2 presenter and producer Mark Goodier interviewing people on the subject of EVs. […]
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Electric Nation, in the form of DriveElectric, will have a stand at Robert Llewellyn’s Fully Charged LIVE event, taking place over the weekend of 9 & 10 June 2018 at Silverstone. You can pick up a copy of our Smart Charging Guide on the stand of DriveElectric, the leasing partner at Fully Charged LIVE. With […]
Read moreWe wanted to take this opportunity to thank all our recruits for being so engaged with the surveys so far! To date, they have been tasked with completing 2-3 of them, and response rates have been fantastic – we are hoping to see this remain the case for the duration of the project. For now, […]
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If you want to know more detail about how the Electric Nation smart charging system works then you can now watch a video, with Mark Dale, Innovation and Low Carbon Networks Engineer, Western Power Distribution, talking through the Electric Nation model. The model represents a street with a number of homes. Electric cars are charging […]
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Electric Nation is due to be presented at Ecobuild 2018, which takes place from 6-8 March at ExCeL, London. Mark Dale, Innovation and Low Carbon Networks Engineer, Western Power Distribution, is delivering a talk during the session entitled ‘Integrating electric vehicles into the built environment’, from 15.00-16.15 on 7 March in the Energy & HVAC […]
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Electric Nation launches Smart Charging Guide Summary The project also achieves a major milestone of 500 smart chargers installed Electric Nation presents at LCNI event Electric Nation has launched a Smart Charging Guide Summary at the 2017 Low Carbon Networks & Innovation (LCNI) Conference taking place in Telford from 6-7 December 2017. At the same […]
Read moreElectric Nation has been a huge success, having received almost 3,000 enquiries from people wanting to take part in the project. As there are only 700 spaces available, we are reaching capacity and all future applications received are being placed on a reserve list. DriveElectric, the UK’s leading specialist in electric car leasing, has had […]
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