Welcome to CABLED
The CABLED project will showcase electric cars across Birmingham & Coventry in the West Midlands. The project will make Ultra Low Carbon Vehicles available to a wide cross section of real world users and collect data on their everyday use. This is part of a UK wide trial in which the West Midlands plays a major role.
The widespread uptake of electric vehicles will significantly reduce carbon emissions across the UK, and reduce local air pollution and noise levels. Vehicles are becoming available but issues such as initial purchase price and range anxiety for longer journeys remain to be resolved before mass deployment.
The CABLED project will be collecting data from the vehicles to understand how the vehicles are used in real life and to assist in the planning of the further expansion of the supporting infrastructure.
This project will:
- deliver a showcase demonstration of 110 ultra low carbon vehicles across Birmingham and Coventry in West Midlands. These will be a cross-section of vehicles; 2 seater, 4 seater and SUVs. They will be powered using battery electric, hydrogen fuel-cell, plug-in hybrid and induction charging technology.
- deliver the infrastructure required both in the users' property, in workplaces, and in public areas. The charging infrastructure will be a conventional plug in system currently deployed elsewhere in the UK.
- allow a large number of available charging point locations and thus vehicle usage of a diverse nature. A range of users with varying driving patterns will be recruited from a diverse socio-economic background.
- provide extended real world vehicle evaluation and usage data to allow final development and hence ensure successful production launch of ultra low carbon vehicles.
- collect data to measure vehicle performance, infrastructure usage patterns, impacts and requirements with a minimum 12 months experience of seasonal conditions from all vehicles.
- publicise the benefits and progress of low carbon vehicles
