Josey Wardle

Email: j.wardle3@ncl.ac.uk

Project title

Public recharging for Electric Vehicles - The business model challenge

Supervisors

• School of Engineering
• Prof Phil Blythe
• Newcastle University Business School
• Dr Jane Gibbon

Project description

We are investigating how to increase public Electric Vehicle (EV) recharging provision at the early market stage. At this stage, financial returns are poor.

We need mass adoption of EV to reach the UK’s carbon emission reduction target. But the scarcity of public recharging infrastructure is a major barrier for uptake. We don’t have enough longitudinal public recharging data to make informed infrastructure investment and policy decisions. This research captures and analyses recharging data over eight years to address this gap.

We are also investigating the relationship between EV sales and public recharging.

There are many stakeholders in the recharging infrastructure, for many different reasons. This makes it a complicated marketplace. It often has conflicting objectives and an unclear financial business case. We will carry out diverse stakeholder analysis and qualitative research. We will explore broader non-financial measures to justify public recharging provision. We will investigate stakeholders’ perceptions of recharging infrastructure value.

Publications

• Huebner Y, Blythe PT, Hill GA, Neaimeh M, Austin J, Gray E. 49,999 electric car journeys and counting. In: EVS27 2013 World Electric Vehicle Symposium. 2013, Barcelona, Spain: IEEE. Presented by Josey Wardle.
• Hübner Y, Blythe PT, Hill G, Wardle J, Herron C, Gray L. An analysis of the use of quick chargers for electric vehicle recharging in the North East of England. Presented at 20th ITS World Congress 2013. Japan: Tokyo.
• Wardle J, Huebner Y, Blythe PT, Gibbon J. The provision of public recharging infrastructure for Electric Vehicles in North East England – is there life after subsidies?. In: International Conference on Sustainable Infrastructure (ICSI). 2014, Long Beach, California, USA: ASCE.
• Wardle J, Blythe PT, Gibbon J, Hübner Y. The provision of public recharging infrastructure for Electric Vehicles in the UK – is there a business case? In: World Electric Vehicle Journal 2015 7(4):546-557. Presented at EVS28, KINTEX, Korea.
• Wardle J, Bramich A, Neaimeh M, Serradilla J, Pinna C, Hill G, Guo W, Blythe PT. Rapid Charge Network: breaking down the barriers to longer distance electric driving. In: European Battery, Hybrid and Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle Congress (EEVC-2015). 2015, Brussels, Belgium: Electric-City.mobi.
• Serradilla J, Wardle J, Blythe P, Gibbon J. An evidence-based approach for investment in rapid-charging infrastructure. Energy Policy 2017, 106, 514-524.

Interests

Music.

Qualifications

• BEng (Hons) 1st class in Manufacturing Engineering and Management, Nottingham University (1993)