{"id":93850,"date":"2018-07-12T08:30:02","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T08:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=db3dc789f14d00b4a41b766082157a90"},"modified":"2018-07-12T08:30:02","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T08:30:02","slug":"news-story-creative-new-ways-to-charge-electric-vehicles-apply-for-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=93850","title":{"rendered":"News story: Creative new ways to charge electric vehicles: apply for funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>There is up to \u00a340 million for UK businesses to develop and demonstrate new ways of charging electric vehicles. The funding comes from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/office-for-low-emission-vehicles\">Office of Low Emission Vehicles<\/a> and Innovate UK, which is part of <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/\">UK Research and Innovation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"growing-the-infrastructure-to-support-uptake\">Growing the infrastructure to support uptake<\/h2>\n<p>UK government wants nearly all cars and vans to be zero emission by 2050. A major challenge will be to grow the UK\u2019s charging infrastructure quickly enough to make electric vehicles an attractive choice.<\/p>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/government-launches-road-to-zero-strategy-to-lead-the-world-in-zero-emission-vehicle-technology\">See the recent announcement<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/reducing-emissions-from-road-transport-road-to-zero-strategy\">find out more about government\u2019s Road to Zero Strategy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The funding is split across 2 competitions. These are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>to support electric vehicle owners who don\u2019t have suitable off-street parking to charge their vehicles in public spaces<\/li>\n<li>to investigate wireless charging options for owners of vehicles such as taxis, service vehicles and delivery vans<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"electric-vehicle-charging-for-public-spaces\">Electric vehicle charging for public spaces<\/h2>\n<p>This first competition is looking for creative new designs and technologies that could offer significant, convenient and low-cost charging facilities to areas where people don\u2019t have off-street parking.<\/p>\n<p>Ideas could range from providing on-street infrastructure to creating a community charging hub.<\/p>\n<p>There are 2 phases. It will fund a series of feasibility studies in a first phase. The best ideas could go on to receive further funding for large-scale demonstration projects in public areas.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"competition-information\">Competition information<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>the competition is open, and the deadline for applications is at midday on 29 August 2018<\/li>\n<li>projects must be led by a business working with other businesses, local authorities, research organisations or charities<\/li>\n<li>phase 1 feasibility studies should have costs of between \u00a375,000 and \u00a3120,000 and last up to 3 months<\/li>\n<li>phase 2 demonstrator projects should have costs of between \u00a35 million and \u00a310 million and last up to 18 months<\/li>\n<li>businesses could attract up to 70% of their project costs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk\/competition\/196\/overview\">Find out more about this competition and apply.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"wireless-electric-charging\">Wireless electric charging<\/h2>\n<p>The second competition focuses on new technologies that would allow commercial vehicles &#8211; such as taxis, service vehicles and delivery fleets &#8211; to top up their batteries during the day without having to stop to plug in.<\/p>\n<p>Projects should look at commercially-feasible ideas and business models that would enable vehicles to be charged while causing minimum disruption to their business.<\/p>\n<p>They could aim to show how wireless charging could be used by taxis in places such as stations and airports, or with commercial vehicles at major depots, hubs or delivery bays.<\/p>\n<p>It will fund a series of feasibility studies in a first phase. The second phase will fund the best ideas for large-scale infrastructure and demonstration projects on publicly or privately-owned roads and transportation or logistics hubs.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"competition-information-1\">Competition information<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>the competition is open, and the deadline for applications is at midday on 29 August 2018<\/li>\n<li>projects must be led by a business working with other businesses, local authorities, research organisations or charities<\/li>\n<li>phase 1 feasibility studies should have costs of between \u00a375,000 and \u00a3120,000 and last up to 3 months<\/li>\n<li>phase 2 demonstrator projects should have costs of between \u00a33 million and \u00a39 million and last up to 18 months<\/li>\n<li>businesses could attract up to 70% of their project costs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk\/competition\/198\/overview\">Find out more about this competition and apply.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businesses can apply for up to \u00a340 million for projects that look at creating public areas to charge electric cars or wireless charging for commercial vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}