Research project

Future Electric Vehicle Energy networks supporting Renewables (FEVER)

Project overview

FEVER aims to develop and demonstrate a fully grid independent, cost-effective, and socially acceptable, renewables powered electric vehicle charger.

Working towards meeting the UK government’s 2035 zero-emission pledge, and later 2050 climate goal, the FEVER project concentrates on the design, development, and demonstration of a 100% renewable-powered EV charging station, facilitated by an innovative off-vehicle energy store (OVES).

This will create a secure, year-round, grid-independent charging solution for EVs. Moving beyond the state-of-the-art technologies, a cost-effective and socially acceptable 'hybrid' OVES will be developed, that is suitable for both urban and rural deployment and use.

This interdisciplinary project, a Programme Grant funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), unites a diverse team of academic scientists and engineers (mechanical, electronics and electrical, computer science) and social scientists (psychology, economics and management) across four research-led UK universities: 天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载, Sheffield, Surrey and Portsmouth.

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Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Andrew Cruden BEng, MSc, PhD, FIET

Associate Dean Infrastructure
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Other researchers

Professor Suleiman Sharkh BEng, PhD, CEng, MIET

Prof of Electrical Machines and Drives
Research interests
  • Electric Machines
  • Power Electronics
  • Microgrids
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Professor Richard Wills

Head of Department
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Professor Sebastian Stein

Professor
Research interests
  • Citizen-Centric Artificial Intelligence Systems
  • Mechanism Design and Incentive Engineering in Multi-Agent Systems
  • Applications of AI in smart energy, transportation, electric vehicle charging and disaster response
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Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs