Electricity for more - pre-study analyzing charging needs in geographical areas and user cases

Purpose and goal:

The prestudy primarily aimed to lay the foundation for a way of thinking and a methodology that better supports cities and municipalities in the future development of public charging infrastructure that enables more people to choose the electric car. With the zone methodology, the data parameters and calculations developed during the prestudy, we come one step closer.

But an important objective was to lay the foundation for a broader continuation project, which the project group considers to have been fulfilled. Expected results and effects:

The prestudy developed a methodology to increase the understanding of future needs for public charging infrastructure in cities. The methodology is based on a division of an urban area into smaller zones, allocation of data volumes, and calculations of the need for charging infrastructure per zone. The project has also resulted in a wider stakeholder group for a continuation project where the ambition is to further develop and scale up the methodology to a national perspective to support all the country´s cities and municipalities in the development of public charging infrastructure.

Approach and implementation:

The execution was structured in five work packages to carry out the following: formulate analysis model, geographic scope and necessary parameters, acquisition of data, quantitative analysis and visualization, and recommendations for future studies and actions. The work was carried out in close dialogue and cooperation with involved actors for access to important data parameters and information that enabled method development and production of relevant results.

A couple of workshops have been carried out where more actors involved in the work and discussion about continuation.