1 Jul 2021
Loughborough-led project to help guide national rollout of Electric Vehicle chargepoints
Over the next ten years, Electric Vehicles (EVs) will move from being a niche technology to representing every new car registered for use on the country’s roads. To facilitate the low-carbon transition towards EVs, the government is investing heavily in the public infrastructure needed to allow people to charge their vehicles when away from home.
The OPTIC (Operation and Performance of Transport Infrastructure Chargepoints) project, led by Dr Craig Morton from Loughborough University’s Transport and Urban Planning Group in the School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering, will examine the EV chargepoint network currently installed in Manchester. This represents 131 different chargepoints and will involve data from 65,000 charging events.
Speaking about the study, Dr Morton said: "EV chargepoint networks are very much an emerging infrastructure, but over the next decade they will be an essential part of our towns and cities, just as fuel stations are currently."
