SA Strategic Regional Electric Vehicle Adoption Program
- $172k Funded by ARENA
- $349k Total project cost
Summary
The SA Strategic Regional Electric Vehicle Adoption Program project goal is to accelerate EV adoption, help to optimise infrastructure investment and help ensure that EVs are powered by renewable energy.
This involves understanding behavioural barriers to adoption and suggesting interventions, understanding how EV’s will be used and where they will likely be charged and investigating how EVs can best integrate with local solar generation and the wider grid in South Australia.
How the project works
The SA Strategic Regional Electric Vehicle Adoption Program project will recruit a large cohort of South Australians through an EV public awareness platform named “Charge Together South Australia”. Quantitative and behavioural research will be conducted including experimenting with interventions that may accelerate adoption. Monitoring of home energy usage and driving patterns will provide data required to understand real-world behaviours.
The outcomes will be an understanding of measures required to stimulate adoption, data required to help plan infrastructure and total cost of ownership tools that demonstrate the benefits of electric vehicles when coupled with solar power and batteries.
Learn more
Report: Strategic Regional PEV Adoption Program Executive Summary
This report aims to help understand the nature of PEV demand in the Australian context, to enable industry and public sectors to put in place mechanisms to accelerate adoption, and to ensure that the adoption maximises the usage of renewable energy.
Report: Unlocking Demand for Renewably Powered Electric Vehicles
This study identified both the key barriers to adoption for PEV intenders as well as gaining an understanding of the overarching experience in the customer journey
Report: Managing the Impacts of Renewably Powered Electric Vehicles on Distribution Networks
This report seeks to understand the impact of PEVs on the South Australian power network in terms of both demand and its interaction with the increasing levels of renewable generation.
Media Release: Driving Australians to Embrace Electric Vehicles
A new public participation program by Evenergi has the potential to increase the number of electric vehicles (EVs) on Australia’s roads and boost the amount of solar and storage units installed in homes.
Area of innovation
Although Australia is behind the global push to electric vehicles, there is the opportunity to learn from best practice. This project applies lessons from global markets to establish a platform to accelerate adoption, and to do so in a way that improves community outcomes.
In most countries, dealing with this change has been reactionary and the innovation in the project is in the methodology applied to simultaneously dealing with major constraints to this goal – infrastructure, model availability, cost perceptions and general awareness in a more integrated manner. In particular, countries have not approached EV and solar adoption in concert.
The tools and data created and the manner in which these are utilised will be a world first.
Benefit
The SA Strategic Regional Electric Vehicle Adoption Program project will deliver vital information to governments and car manufacturers to help stimulate adoption. It will provide tools for consumers that help them make the switch sooner, and also demonstrate how electric cars can work together with rooftop solar and battery storage to deliver better returns on investment and grid stability.
ARENAWIRE Blogs
Can electric vehicles accelerate the transition to renewables?
After a cautious start, Australians are buying electric vehicles in growing numbers as manufacturers release more models to the Australian market.
New buyer tools to boost electric vehicles
Tens of thousands of electric vehicles are predicted to hit Australian roads within five years under a new program launched today to assist fleet buyers.
Evenergi takes on challenge of increasing the number of electric cars on our roads
ARENA is funding a new initiative that aims to turn Australia into a global leader in the electric vehicle (EV) market.
