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Plug-in- motoring for the East of England
lectric Cars may be relatively new to the motoring landscape, but you can expect to see more and more of them here in the East of England. In December against stiff competition from other regions and cities, the East of England’s “EValu8” project – to install a major network of electric charging points across the region – won £3 million of funding through the Government’s “Plugged in Places” initiative. Here at the University, Dr Keith Bevis and Professor Andrew Starr had been working closely with colleagues in the Regional Development Agency and with consultants from Future Transport Systems to develop an integrated and sustainable project that would be about more than recharging points. The team achieved further funding from the region
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and from the European Regional Development Fund, so that with the matching contributions from partners across the East of England, EValu8 is now a £7 million project set to install a network of 1,200 smart recharging points and to work with small and large companies to develop the new products and services
by Dr Keith Bevis
With climate change an ever present issue, the University is driving forward with sustainability to influence the future of motoring...
to fulfill the needs of plug-in motorists. Keith Bevis, a UH alumnus and now the managing
director of EValu8 Transport Innovation Ltd – the company set up by the University of Hertfordshire to lead delivery of EValu8 – said: “EValu8 has enormous support and commitment
from over 100 public and private sector organisations, including all eleven of the East of England’s local transport authorities and big industry names including General Motors, Ford, Lotus, Ricardo, BT, UK Power Networks, BAE Systems, London Stansted Airport, Ecotricity, BRE, Millbrook Proving Ground and Visteon. With our own strengths as a leading Entrepreneurial University and our expertise in travel planning and EV technology we are keen to capitalise on this support - a great opportunity to innovate with these organisations and a host of smaller companies in the East of England to encourage the adoption of electric vehicles in the region and reduce our long term oil dependency and carbon footprint.” Contact EValu8 at
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Below left Dr Keith Bevis with Dr Tim Nicklin of Ford and
Emma Carpenter of EEDA at January’s EValu8 Steering Group. Below The Allied Vehicles Peugeot EV van at an EValu8 event
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Photography: Istockphoto
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