Project Leader: Professor Phil Blythe
Sponsors: OLEV: Office of Low Emission Vehicles, DfT
Partners: ONE NE, Low Carbon Futures, Gateshead College, Future Transport System
Website: http://www.chargeyourcar.org.uk/indexx3.php
Start/end dates: 2009-2013
Contact: phil.blythe@ncl.ac.uk
Charge Your Car is the Plugged in Places project for the North East of England, funded by the Office for Low Emission Vehicles, One North East and regional partners. Its aim is to create a comprehensive connected network of electric vehicle charging points throughout North East of England by March 2013. To date over 300 charge points have been installed in public, commercial and workplace locations with a further 80 domestic charging units in use at the homes of EV drivers in the region. A growing network of 50 kW DC Quick Chargers along the main arterial routes is also providing an 80% charge in 30 minutes. Working alongside the Switch-Ev project is enableing Newcastle University to correlate and analyse the data from both schemes to collectively study EV user’s charging behaviour and act upon feedback. This will inform future infrastructure developments and strategies.