eCharge4Drivers

EU H2020 funded project to improve the user experience whilst charging electric vehicles

eCharge4Drivers works to improve the Electric-Vehicle (EV) charging experience in urban areas and on interurban corridors, making it more convenient for users to go green! The project will demonstrate additional convenient charging options within cities, a mobile charging service, charge points at lamp posts, networks of battery swapping stations for Light Electric Vehicles and a transportable charging station service to cover temporary needs.

eCharge4Drivers combines the technology advances whilst considering the impact on human behaviour, to make the transition to electric vehicles as easy as possible.” Prof Peter Fussey
Professor in Mechanical Engineering

The University of Sussex are working on two work packages within eCharge4Drivers;

• Using Agent Based Models to study how the improvements implemented in eCharge4Drivers will be received by the EV drivers. A Montecarlo approach is used to generate a virtual fleet of EVs with varying vehicle parameters and driver responses. They can then drive around the demonstration areas to allow their overall behaviour to emerge.
• Processing Twitter data through natural language processing techniques to understand how EV charging experiences have evolved from 2018 to 2022. The data has been grouped into themes and sub-themes and presented in interactive dashboards. The data has been classified with sentiment (ie. Positive or Negative feelings) and is ready for review by project team.

 

eCharge4Drivers is co-funded by the EU under the H2020 Research and Innovation Programme (grant agreement No 875131).

Staff

Prof Peter Fussey

Dr Spyros Skarvelis-Kazakos

Prof David Weir