Two presentations from Local Authorities outlining their LEVI programmes, the business models they will use and the approach they will take:
– Community Based Project – Matthew Ling | Suffolk County Council
– Leverage other landlords land for public EVI – Martin Schäferbarthold | Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council
Then a presentation on latest car club research finding – Oxford University.
Welcome back everybody great to have you all here I’m Vicki Robbins and I’m part of the Innovation team at Oxford city council I’m absolutely delighted to present three really ground changing speakers here today that are going to really contribute to that whole EV infrastructure going forward whether it’s through the Levi bid or
Beyond we’ve got Matt Ling who’s from s City uh suffy County Council who’s going to be talking about the community-based solutions and innovative ways that he’s leveraged land assets in his um area we’ve got Martin shape of hair bolt who’s here from so Hall who’s come up
With a really novel way to bring other U public sector organizations into the mix for for delivery and utilization of their land and then we’ve got Hannah budnitz from Oxford University here he’s going to talk about e-mobility and the research he’s done here so first the stage I’d like to invite [Applause] Matt
Morning so my name is Matthew I’m suffer County Council um I wonder how many of you know much about suffk do you know where it is on the east of England you know we are proud that we have the largest container port in the country we have Ed
Sheeran we have snake molting is one of the finest orchestras performance space that you would ever want we have a football club which Compares with no other one has produced Alf Ramsey and so many famous footballers apart from the canaries just up the road but did you know also that
We have one of the first communitybased car charging hubs in the country the first one which we leveraged Community assets to benefit local community so they could charge their vehicles to lead the way so they knew where they were going rather than waiting to catch up like so many rural places suffk is
A rural urban mainly rural place it’s got about 800,000 people 330,000 homes about 25% of those homes have no off street parking there is a challenge for that it’s a destination Place earlier this summer we had the Secretary of State for transport send us a letter saying can you make sure that there’s
Enough charging for tourists over the summer when they arrive and visit South world or alra we’ve got lots of challenges but we also know we’ve got lots of opportunities and the people who live in those communities are the most important asset that we’ve got now I wanted to start off by just
Saying we have to learn from where we are know where we are and know where we’re going to so on the IPS Felix ST Vintage historic rally this year I saw this wonderful old vehicle on the left hand side there this is built somewhere in the 1920s there was not sufficient
Infrastructure there for it to fuel up when it needed to so what was the solution it was to carry the petrol on the running board the one in the middle is the launch of um a land lease that the council did with fast Ned to have one of
The first Ultra rapid hubs in suffk I parked up my Morris van there for contrast it was the most abysmal day I don’t know whether Tom’s here at all but he’ll remember and he’ll recount how the snow was coming horizontally it was amazing I put my vehicle there 1965
1098 about 10 horsepower because I know that if that vehicle was built now it would have a battery that drove it and if there’s any aspiring converters who want to converted to Electric please talk to me afterwards but that Hub as I’ve seen it happen over the last six months has been
One of the busiest places in that part of Ip switch every time I go by I look at it see how many cars and I smile because it’s being used it’s drawing people to charge up rapidly as they need on route to somewhere else it’s next to
A park and ride which I know Vicky uh at Al have done within Oxford so it serves a number of different purposes knowing where we’re going is important and we’re looking at contracts for the Levi funding of maybe 101 15 years that was the nearest I could come
To an autonomous vehicle a remote control car in 10 years time is that going to be the future in suffk in your urban area in 15 years time what’s it going to look like how do we make sure we have something which is fit for purpose in the
Future so as far as a community-based scheme there’s a whole lot of benefits what we want to do and what we wanted to do is to get people involved so there’s ownership locally so they know the value so they can assist with promoting EVs and EV ownership we may be in a rural
Area but connectivity is key in our urban areas air quality is a problem cost of ownership is an issue the more rural you are the more it costs you to get to work we’ve done it because we want to get and experience what works what
Doesn’t work the best model so as we go forward we get better so our community hubs are based in Village Halls Parish Halls um Leisure centers places where people go and use in villages there places where that top right hand uh picture shows that’s uh codam um just about 10 miles from ips
Switch where there is no off- street parking you might think in a rural area it’s not a problem let me tell you it is if you went to center of ipswitch the Victorian houses demonstrate there’s a problem with charging we need to get it right we need to get it so that it’s
Accessible and realistic so our community Hub our models of putting charges in our locations means that the local community operates it they own the asset it means they can change the Tariff so that people aren’t disadvantaged it means that I’m not going to be charged 89p like I might be
At an instav volt even though often I get a chance to have McDonald’s when I’m there but it does mean that if you’re a local you might get a better deal you might be able to go and get a free cup of coffee from the community coffee shop
This is not large scale roll out but this is a way of serving the local communities and giving them the identity and the way that they can actually work forward why was it so special first in the country I said contactless app RFID did I say contactless these are 7 Kil
Charges yes we think that what people want is to make it easy so why I confuse it it’s got to be easy to use is it accessible yes it’s got to be accessible is it 1899 compliant quite a few of them are is that what we want absolutely it
Should be by exception that these things aren’t accessible it should be exception that these things aren’t inclusive we don’t want anyone left behind on this it needs to work it’s got to work there’s got to be no surprises it’s a little bit bit dark there but one of my sad occupations I go
Around and check every charger that I ever see when I’m driving around just for fun really this charger these two charging stations I was not so happy at the end of it because there was a pre-authorization charge I ended up with nearly £500 worth of pre-authorization charges on a charge point because it
Wasn’t working properly that’s just outrageous it’s a screenshot from my phone how many apps do I really need I don’t I really don’t I want it to be easy if I as an EV driver as I as leading a team of EV infrastructure implementers at suffk get fed up with
This a normal person in the street in suffk is just going to stop and find a different solution we know that we need to give driver support in these Community situations we know we got to help the local um organizations to promote what they’ve got but on our side we’ve got their
Accessibility we’ve got their cooperation we’ve got their enthusiasm they know their communities better than we do and we think we know them quite well we have learned some lessons Legacy equipment we’ve been going for three or four years now we’ve had three generations of charging unit looking forward going through to 15
Years time how many times are we going to have to update equipment how many times you going to have to date update back office is it ocp occp 24 compliant 54 complied where are we going to be in 10 years time will it work if not who’s
Going to pay for it how do we do that how do we monitor what’s going on in suffk with our charge points we’ve got to Future proof it we’ve got to make sure that what we’ve got works and we’ve got to know it works and make sure it delivers that 99%
Uptime and it’s got to be good value for money for the consumers as a local Authority we’re not in it for the money I’m told that some charge Point operators are perhaps that’s right but we need to work with you to make sure that we have systems in place infrastructure in place
That delivers what’s best for our local communities we have a plan we published our EV infrastructure uh strategy this week um for whole of suffk it’s not perfect but it gives an idea of the path that we’re going it shows us where we’re going to go it shows us at the moment
That over half the charge points in suffk have been put in by local authorities an investment of something like half a million pounds already and more to come we now have the challenge of our Levi pilot 1.3 million we have the challenge of the Levi Capital 5.6
Million how can we use that to get the best for the infrastructure to make sure it’s not just an urban area make sure it’s not just the commercially viable areas making sure that the fees and tariffs adapt to the people that are going to use it and still yes have a
Return for the people who are investing it’s a big challenge there are some things we do not know actually there’s an awful lot of things we don’t know um but working with you working cooperatively with you working with our colleagues like Vicki at Oxford um is a
Really good way of us getting the best value the best solution for our communities so we have a community based solution that works we have a community- based solution which people will turn up at it’s destination charging yes it’s not the transit work uh charging but it provides a benefit for the communities
And that’s really really positive suffk aspires to be the greenest County it aspires to be Net Zero by 2030 if if you want to come and see where Ed Sheeran lives where the castle and the hill song was was actually um composed if you want to see John Lenin’s
Bungalow on Shingle Street In The Bleak desolate East Coast from that film yesterday if you want to see the largest collection of constables and Landscape paintings you can see them in suffk but you can actually go to flatford Mill and you can see Willie cot Willie lot’s Cottage
You’ll only be able to do it if you help us get the best infrastructure in suffk why live in London when you can live in the greenest County with a community infrastructure that benefits the people that live there so you know come and work with us because actually it’s better than where you
Are there’s all sorts of things I could talk about but the team is really important so I’ve got a team of probably four people now um I tell them when they’ve come on board they’ve not known much about EV I said the way to do
It is come and play take out the zoor the Zs the Teslas go and see what it’s like see how difficult it is I sent two of my colleagues up to Harriet for the fully charged show in AI I hid when I came back their experience of charging up what didn’t
Work where it worked how they needed to plan their journey is absolutely essential for us who work in trying to implement it for the general public because we get the questions we get the expectations the team is really important and we think we’ve got a team that can deliver
That probably the last thing I will say apart from what’s on there is the politics suffk is a county which has become more green over the last six months there’s greater expectations in delivering low carbon sustainability that is rooted in our communities they know what works there
There they are often just looking after the land for the Next Generation they have been there for many generations so they care about where they are and they want to do it right Community charging hubs is one solution it’s not the whole solution the right charger at the right time in the
Right place you know is absolutely key to all of this but what I would say is the community hubs can form one part of that solution we can use their land assets we can gain real benefit from working with the people that live there love the place and use it but don’t
Forget suffk the greeners county come and visit and see what you make of it thank [Applause] you thanks very much Matt I think it’s really interesting what he’s doing there with the community projects and it’s really interesting I think as well about how how that local knowledge is driving
Up utilization in those charge points the key points in the whole business case mix the next person I want to Welcome to the stage is Martin shaper herbal he’s from Sol Hill Metropolitan burough Council and he’s come up with a novel way to bring other partners together to leverage wider use of land
Use for electric vehicle infrastructure so Martin over to [Applause] you thank you and thanks for entertaining us Matthew that was good so I’m not going to sell soly Hull as hard as suffk to manage expectations um I can’t take the credit for inventing a cluster member approach um although not many yet have
Implemented it um for public charging infrastructure so I’m going to talk you through a little bit about what that means why we in Sol Hull have chosen it to do that way and why I think that will work much more broadly and expand the reach of our public charging networks Beyond just Council
Assets so I will talk about Sol Hill a little bit but it is only this slide I promise um so population just over 200,000 so we are sort of city size but spread across 2third rural 1/3 Urban and Suburban burough we’re kind of that bit that’s sandwiched in between Birmingham
And COV you’ve probably driven through it a million times you won’t even realize you’re going through Solly Hull as you pass through a lot of the time but we are there there’s lots of really interesting stuff as you leave the mo away so that jlr Birmingham Airport Birmingham International train station
The NEC I’m sure you visited lots of times you’ll see it called Birmingham on the news quite a lot which irks our Council as no end um because all the really interesting stuff that happens in Birmingham is actually largely happening in suly Hull but that’s where we are we are
Right next to them their friendly neighbors we like them and we are working with them particularly on our Levi bid um coming up um in the new year so I’ll talk a little bit about that as we go through it’s a relatively affluent part of the world um it’s certainly
Affluent compared to most of the rest of the West Midlands the rate of EV ownership is much higher in Sol Hall than it is elsewhere but it’s still only sort of five or 6% which is not a big number it’s not a big proportion by any
Stretch but when you look at the rest of the West Midlands you’ve got Burrows on the other side um that are down below 1% EV ownership in terms of total penetration so we’re Advanced part of that is because we’ve got a lot of jagu land driver employees driving ey Paces
But actually that’s only a relatively small proportion of the number of EVS on the road is to do with that affluence it’s the ability that people have got to be able to park on their driveway charge on their driveway where it is cheapest ideally that’s where most of charging
Should be done and we think we need less public charging infrastructure as a result of that than perhaps other areas So Sol hle is never going to be the part of the UK that has the most EV charging what we’re trying to do is make sure
We’ve got the right EV charging in the right place so that people can use it when they’re doing something else and you’re never spending time deliberately charging your car you’re charging your car whilst there’s something else to do it’s recently become a requirement effectively for local authorities
To have an EV strategy um Su Hull has had one since 2020 we reviewed that I joined the council in 2021 we spent a lot of time building up knowledge to really flesh out what that strategy actually meant so we had a a published strategy document that had
Lots of words in it and it talked a lot about EVs and how they work and how the technology works and what charging might look like but it didn’t really have an action plan so it was a strategy in theory but didn’t really lead to anything being delivered so we reviewed
That in 2022 and took a much more delivery focused approach because it’s only by putting the charging infrastructure in that you enable all of the rest of that evv journey to work whether that’s public charging infrastructure whether that’s Depo workplace charging infrastructure or whether that’s just helping people to
Understand how you actually charge a vehicle at home a big part of that piece of work was understanding where the demand would be it’s easy to look at a map and think okay there’s lots of people that live here we probably need some charging there there’s not so many people that
Live here we probably need less charging there that’s not necessarily how charging demand actually works really what you need to understand is how many of those people living in that area can actually charge at home and we should encourage them where they can potentially put a home EV charge point
To put that in place for themselves or put that in place as part of a package when they buy their car what we need to fill in as a local Authority is those gaps where people don’t have the opportunity to do that so somebody from field Dynamics in the
Audience here today um who actually did this modeling exercise with us so this has helped us to understand a very very granular level exactly where those pockets of charging demand are right now but also timately where that charging demand will arise in the future because there are people that will never be able
To charge from their own home I know we’ve got a couple of examples of sort of cross foot path charging channels here today actually that’s probably not going to play a very big role somewhere like soill because most of our properties that don’t have access to a driveway or a garage are actually
Recessed way back from the road so you might have a 10 15 20 even 50 meter run before you get to your front door from the street side so that sort of solution doesn’t really work so we need Alternatives that we can bring forward and get the right charging
Infrastructure still close enough to people um but without necessarily making it as personal as that kind of driveway charging experience might be those demand zones aren’t a perfect overlay with where we’ve got our Council car Parks um but car Parks whether they’re owned by the council or not can
Play a big part in serving um PV charging demand the street scen in certain areas means it’s really difficult to do on Street charging we’ve got lots of areas particularly in the more deprived parts of the burrow where it’s virtually impossible to park on Street um so you
End up with people parking on curbs parking on patches of grass you try and persuade the CPO to come and put some charging infrastructure into a location like that the risk of it being vandalized is quite High um we saw in 2018 when the council tried to roll out
A car club in a more deprived part of the burough the car club was effectively abandoned before it got going because there was so much resistance this was an EV only car club that was bought in the vehicles and the charging infrastructure were vandalized before the car club ever
Took off because it was the wrong solution in the wrong place at the wrong time all the right intentions behind it and actually it was underneath that a really good project and it was the right project to do it’s just some of the decisions that were made in getting to
Delivery weren’t quite right so we’ve learned lessons from that we’ve learned lessons from Oxford and from other councils across the country we’ve tried to implement Implement a strategy that really fills all of the gaps in demand in the places where they actually need filling and sort of prioritize what we deliver on that
Basis we did get some funding through the Levi pilot program um so I know we’ve got some people from oev and DFT here today um and we’ve got the guys from senx who’ve been really helpful in terms of the information they’re able to provide as part of the Levi support
Body so you can see on the right hand side that demand zoning so there’s different colors on there the purple bits are where there’s really high demand for on Street charging or an equivalent to on Street charging on the left you can see the locations that we’re serving through our
Levi pilot program that Levi pilot program will deliver within Sol hul within our own cancel assets 157 charge points mostly in cancel Owned Car Parks there’s a little Handful in there that are actually on street or in recess parking Bays close to local amenities and what we’ve done is
Leveraged more slow charging into a car park environment than a CPO might offer in that environment themselves so it’s not something that would be immediately commercially obvious as a solution but we put them in the place that we’ve put them and you can see where that sort of
Overlaps with some of the purple spots that are on the map on the right hand side what we’re doing is displacing some of that on Street demand that we know is really difficult to serve with on Street charging infrastructure and we’re pushing that into the car Parks but
We’re doing that in a way where people aren’t going to be punished by having to pay for parking at the same time so you’ll have single transaction you’re paying only once contactless payment by default you’ll be able to pay by other methods if if you choose to but contactless payment on every single
Charging infrastructure item that goes in through this project and it’s taking that demand away from the street which does two things it means you’ve got charging infrastructure for those people that need to charge in those areas and don’t have the opportunity to do that from home it’s within walking distance from where they
Live so we’ve created isocon around where these particular charging locations will go so we understand what that catchment area looks like we know that people can get there without having to go out the way and because we’re doing that and we’re shifting that overnight charging demand into car park locations and off
Street we’re actually solving a parking problem as well we’re taking those additional cars off the street and making it that little bit easier what is really obvious from that map though is that the pins on the left hand side don’t cover all of the purple
Spots on the right hand side so we need to do more the lighter blue pins that you see on the map there are the rest of our car park portfolio essentially that’s the things that we can do with our own land assets without putting stuff explicitly on
Street that gets us to quite a broad coverage actually that covers a significant proportion of the charging demand but it certainly doesn’t get us all the way so what we need is some more land and councils don’t have any money we’re right next to Birmingham who really
Don’t have any money um so we clearly need an alternative to going out there and just trying to either compulsory purchase land to put charging provision in um or go out and Lease land from other people because we’re not in a financial position to be able to do that
We might be able to pass some that cost through to a CPO if we did that but that’s not really an optimal model from a cost point of view that’s going to lead to more expensive charging ultimately if we tried to push it that route so what we’ve done is tried to
Bring in a cluster member approach so a cluster member um is essentially any public sector organization as far as our contract is concerned so any public sector organization operating in Sol Hull can make use of the contract that we’ve already procured they don’t need to go out and procure a charge Point operator
We’ve done that piece of work for them they simply sign a cluster member agreement a land lease agreement where necessary append that to the contract and the charging infrastructure goes in on their site without them having to project manage it there’ll be some elements of project management they get
Involved in because it’s on their asset But ultimately it allows them to benefit from that contract we’ll deal with the contract management we’ll deal with the sort of painful side of it and this is where local authorities do need to take some of the revenue from charging infrastructure because we need to cover
These sort of overhead type costs for managing it and making sure it can go in the right place so that essentially is how that structure works so the council has a contract with the CPO the cluster member can review that contract where it’s a parish council they really don’t have any money they
Have even less money than councils burough councils or tier one authorities do so what we’re doing is we’re offering our legal team we’re offering a service to the parish councils where using a Chinese wall somebody that’s not been involved in the EV infrastructure side will review the legals on their behalf
Give them impartial advice get them to a point where they can understand and sign up to that cluster member agreement if they choose to do so they’re under no obligation to do so but I’ve had Parish councils banging the door down wanting charging infrastructure in their car
Pars because they know the value that will’ll add to their communities so that gets us to a slightly better looking picture um with lots more pins on the map those orange gold colored pins that you see on the map there overlay pretty well with all of the areas where we’ve got those sort
Of purple patches it’s not an absolutely perfect match but it’s pretty damn close to it we’re up to sort of 80% coverage just through this single contract putting charging infrastructure in in locations that we’ve already identified we already know that there is a publicly owned asset there and that
Might be transport for West Midland have a park and rid side a train station it might be a recreation ground owned by a parish council it might be the NHS hospital just to the north of the Sol Hol Town Center any of those cars Parks come into play without anybody having to
Go out and buy anything and we’ve covered the purple patches that are there we’re going to rerun the modeling exercise so field Dynamics are going to come back in rerun the numbers make sure that everything is covering what we think it should be covering make sure we can revise our strategy and understand
What that looks like for the future so every two years now we’ll do that same exercise we’ll review what the strategy is telling us we’ll review the numbers make sure it Stacks up as we put the charging infrastructure into these locations you’ll see that actually we can do that
Without putting very much on street and that’s it for [Applause] me we were talking earlier about how we need to have this symbiotic relationship between cpos and councils and I think that’s the embodiment of it there using the council as a broker to unlock new and wide land potential assets to bring
Into that concession mix gives you as cpos and uh middleware um providers more access to charging opportunities and more access to revenue so it’s a win-win situation so I think it’s really exciting we watching that one very closely um last the stage I’d like to introduce you um to Hannah Bitz Hannah
Is part of the transport um studies unit here at Oxford University um and she’s going to be talking to us about e-mobility and car clubs right thanks very much uh qu hard act to follow that was excellent um so yeah I was actually asked initially just to
Talk about car clubs but I can’t resist talking about some of the wider things uh that I’ve learned uh in four years uh researching in the Electric Mobility space um uh at in my work at uh the University of Oxford I have worked a lot
In the local area uh and with um some of the players that are that are here today uh because I started on the park and charge project um which installed charging hubs in uh Council car parks around uh the more rural areas of Oxfordshire um and uh am still involved
In that with a car cup trial that I’ll I’ll talk about towards the end of um my presentation but um I’ve also been working on um on on other aspects of uh Electric Mobility and and thinking about um kind of what are some of almost the mental barriers as much as the uh
Physical barriers uh and one thing that uh kind of comes out is that uh we need to kind of break down silos we need to think about electric vehicles in all shapes and sizes uh they’re not just cars and they’re particularly not just private cars and um really sort of
Looking at the different opportunities not just saying oh well my colleague over there that does active travel will deal with ebikes and my colleague over there that does public transport will deal with buses but how can we how can we bring that in not just for the local
Local governments but also um in terms of our discussions with other other parties uh people providing energy people providing uh infrastructure um because a lot of the most Innovative things that are happening are around um kind of the intersections between transport and energy um that picture is uh from Taiwan
They’ve got uh e mopeds although they call them E Scooters which is a little bit confusing uh but that’s a uh battery swap bank that also uh delivers grid Services then um that was a the picture other picture is from the EVS are for every one day at Redbridge parking ride
And um obviously that is got a lot of different things going on there it’s not just about EV charging uh arguably it you you could say if you had to say it was one sort of project it’s actually the energy side of things that led a bit
But it’s got the um uh storage it’s got the Renewables it’s got the EV charging it’s going to have electric buses it’s going it uh Services uh heat pumps and things like that so a lot going on there and that’s where real Innovation can happen is bringing all those different things
Together um and also giving more opportunities uh to to be inclusive and to um think about who else can benefit from different types of services in different ways uh colleague working in Africa um gave me those pictures it’s a electric three-wheeler that has a smart
Battery that can be taken in and out of the vehicle and used to also power other things in the home for the driver um there the Yogo city is just something that uh visited Oxfordshire actually and I missed it and I was very annoyed about that because there’s been electric golf
Carts and and smaller Vehicles like that around a lot why aren’t we uh deploying them in certain areas what what can they offer uh for getting people to and from e-mobility scooters um again electric wheelchairs and things like that they’ve been around not really thought about in
The same space as as electric vehicles and as um you know what how we’re going to make these Services more inclusive or even shared Mobility uh but it’s definitely something that we’d like to see go so um just spent a little bit of time talking about uh the research project I’ve been
Working on for the past couple of years it’s trans European so um it’s not Oxford as our case study here in the UK it’s Bristol um Oslo in Norway utre in the Netherlands and posan in Poland and there’s research teams in each country and we’ve been doing a lot of work both
On the policy and governance side as well as looking at um sort of more the demographics and and and bottomup perspectives as well and those cities were chosen they’re very similar in size um they all have big universities as well which which influences not just the fact that we have research teams there
But um because obviously we’re not in Bristol but the kind of way it operates uh but they’ve they’re at different stages or supposedly at different stages in the EV transition but that tends to be focused on private uh car uptake so as we dig into it we find that uh PO
For example in in Poland it’s um the the country is the furthest behind of our four 4 case studies in terms of EV uptake private EV uptake and actually uh one issue issue they’re addressing there is that countries that are further ahead are selling their old secondhand petrol
And diesel cars uh into Poland so there’s a a very uh big Market there for secondhand vehicles and it ends up being the most polluting vehicles from some of the western or Northwestern European countries that end up in Poland so does that mean it’s lagging well um there’s
Other things going on and again thinking more than just vehicles uh they have an electric tram system that they’ve been modernizing and actually the cities pressured the Polish government to be able to include vehicles that travel by rail as well as on Wheels uh by road to
Be included in the same funding packages for Electric Mobility so things going on there E Scooters are also taking off all over the place uh very popular in in pnan in Poland um Norway uh they were at 50% uh of new cars sold were EVS way back in 2018 so
Uh you know very often held up as as as as a front runner um and now it’s 88% so almost 90% of of private cars sold in Norway are electric which is great um but uh it’s not quite that simple there’s there’s good news in that it is spilling over into uh public
Transport electrifying faeries and buses in in cities um but they’re struggling to get key user groups so here in the UK and actually in Poland as well um there’s a focus on fleets and and and electrifying fleet vehicles and that’s actually an area that um Norwegian municipalities are struggling to get uh
To Electrify and to match up with their uh zero traffic growth in cities and what’s quite interesting is they at the moment don’t have the powers to introduce a zero emission Zone but they’d like to because although they have uh toll rings that uh benefit electric vehicles have massive discount
On and so but that’s not within the mun municipalities control so again it’s kind of thinking about layers of governance and who uh can match up say what a taxi needs for charging in the city with what they pay to get into the city um and kind of create a package for
Them uh in the Netherlands um it’s also a very high adoption location um and ebikes are unsurprisingly extremely popular uh what’s quite interesting is they’ve got no E Scooters there and they briefly had uh electric mopeds and those were withdrawn but despite the fact that there’s a very
High mode share for people cycling when you actually look at the kilometers traveled it’s not particularly high so there is a real need still for other Solutions they’ve been looking uh quite a lot at the uh shared uh Mobility uh using electric car clubs and uh this is
In utre has a its own local startup that is using car clubs as uh with bidirectional charging uh and renewable energy sometimes on the building it’s charging from if it’s if it’s in a car park attached to a building uh this one isn’t um but really looking at the kind
Of whole ecosystem of sharing the mobility sharing the energy and uh trying to encouraged reduced car use and mileage that way um and and in Bristol um kind of again quite an interesting uh circumstance for for this conference is that they’ve actually decided to become their own charge Point operator which is
Which is obviously quite unusual so not just contract but own the assets they operate them this causes its own difficulties or challenges because on the one hand they want to respond to their resident res they want to um meet demand where it’s uh where charging is requested but on the other hand they
Have to actually make a commercial case and be viable as a business so they they might not have to make a profit but they need to wash their face in terms of uh putting those charge points out there and operating them um they also run uh different electric vehicle loan schemes
That go across multiple vehicle types so that businesses uh can try out what type is best for them before they decide to invest in their fleets they uh have recently changed their es scooter operator so their es scooter trial uh is the most popular within the UK trials out of the 50 OD
That that went went forward over the last few years and uh now they’ve changed operator from voy to tier and part of that new contract is ebike so it’ll be interesting to see how that takes off literally started a few weeks ago um and what was quite interesting is
I did a bit of a comparison with uh their electric car clubs that they have in Bristol um with electric car clubs in Oxfordshire and in Oxford city electric car clubs are much more popular if people can get hold of them so kind of people book them further in Advan people
Use them more than the non-electric car clubs in the city whereas um in Bristol it was about the same so kind of what does that say about the market and things like that so so some really interesting lessons coming forward uh so going into the electric car clubs more
Specifically you know why should we be really thinking this through well um I don’t know how many people have read through the entire zero emission vehicle mandate but uh car clubs have been included which uh we think for those of us researching in it and and and it’s
Great news as um Louise said this morning we want to see not every petrol or diesel car being replaced with an electric car we want to see one to to at least 10 I think she said 10 but at least we want we want to reduce
That down and car clubs uh KO UK is the uh shared Mobility charity that run has run a really fantastic survey for years now and the most recent one shows that they replac 22 private vehicles and they really encourage car light Lifestyles but there’s kind of a big question mark
Around whether they can do that outside uh urban areas that have public transport that have that those other choices um there’s not a lot of research on it there uh is a Dutch study that showed that it was quite rare to find uh car clubs outside urban areas unless it
Was more peer-to-peer and the peer-to-peer didn’t have that much effect on on on car ownership Um whereas car clubs you know Ken in in the UK just again a bit of analysis that I did that where there are car clubs where where I had the data to say there’s car clubs in areas that are less dense and have higher car ownership generally speaking the car clubs do have
An effect on vehicle ownership so some exciting potential there so getting on to the trial here in Oxfordshire uh these are mainly in the park and charge hubs as well as at Redbridge so these are mainly in smaller towns Market towns and even Villages and it was agreed um
Between o Rich County Council and the car club operators that they’d take the risk of putting a car there as long as there was the space in the charge Point available and we would run it for a year and see how it was going uh so this is all the places that
They’re they’re they’re in and some of them have uh changed uh operator um or started a bit later so not all of them have been running since uh April this past year um but I did do again again just a bit of analysis and you can see that um
Four of them are already getting into the membership range of established car clubs and not just the ones in um higher density lower car ownership cities but also in in in this less dense and and and higher car ownership areas and um actually the ones that are blank have fewer members but that
Doesn’t necessarily mean that those members don’t use them a lot and it was still over the the 10 uh that was mentioned this morning um so yeah just really quickly as well there’s a lot to deal with there’s practical concerns peer-to-peer and some of the other uh car club
Operators have age restrictions on insurance which in rural areas if there’s a lot more elderly people if your insurance if you can’t get insurance to drive a shared vehicle if you’re over 70 that could be a problem um how easy is it to to join in book do
You actually know how to drive or charge the vehicle if you’re sharing it and don’t actually own it how do you learn um hidden costs but we have been finding that making EVS available does make car clubs more attractive particularly here in Oxfordshire um where where EVS are so
Widespread um that there is an interest with that uh essentially run rather than peer-to-peer and that Community involvement can raise awareness but not necessarily use so that’s a kind of tricky one to unpick potentially and that’s [Applause] Itor uh thanks very much Hannah really really interesting insights there um one
Of the charge um Point operators said that um in the research that they’d been involved with that they saw utilization Jump by 20% if it had a Club attached to it so that’s Food For Thought um all of our speakers including the wonderful Sarah Hassan F who’s from oxa city
Council will be at the learn sh share session which is 2 o’clock this afternoon if you want to drill down into some of the stuff that these guys and and and women have spoken about today over to Aid thank [Applause] you