Voi has been running a rental scheme at the University of Warwick and wider West Midlands since 2020 as part of the UK Government e-scooter trialsįounded in 2018, Voi is a Swedish micromobility company offering e-scooter and e-bike sharing in partnership with towns, cities and local communities.If the trial proves successful it could be expanded to cover more of the Voi fleet across the UK. The success of the trial could mean not only reducing operational costs but make their integration into the street and transport infrastructure more streamlined and helping the modal shift to a convenient and flexible mode of transport easier for new and existing riders. The trial will provide data on the wireless system performance as well as user behaviour and interaction with the technology, which is crucial to any future large-scale deployment. Available to estate staff only, the e-scooters will be regularly used across the busy university environment with thousands of staff and students, to help them perform their everyday duties. The University of Warwick campus ‘mini-city’ environment has been selected for this wireless trial as it provides an excellent ‘living lab’ environment to safely test this innovative transport technology. In partnership with Bumblebee Power, Voi is trialling the use of wireless charging pads by retrofitting a number of e-scooters with technology enabling the vehicles to be charged where they are parked. The potential solution: wireless charging. Therefore, Voi began exploring new charging methodologies as a result that could provide the same excellent user experience whilst also delivering a similar vehicle efficient and effective battery performance. These processes can lead to high operating costs for all e-scooter businesses as they can be both time-consuming and often resource-intensive by requiring additional warehouse infrastructure for safe battery charging as well as transportation costs needed to perform swaps across the operating town or city. The batteries powering these zero-emissions e-scooters are often charged safely at their warehouse, where they are replaced when vehicles receive their regular inspections, or by the company’s in-field team who visit each vehicle to perform battery swaps. I would bet that given say 50 hot/cold cycles and say 500 miles, the vehicle will start to feel exactly like it used to before the battery change.Voi Technology, the UK’s largest e-scooter rental operator, has partnered with Bumblebee Power and WMG to trial the use of wireless e-scooter charging at the University of Warwick campus over a 6-month period - potentially changing the future of the micromobility industry.Īs with the charging of electric cars, the charging of e-scooters is a challenge for the operators of extensive rental schemes. that is until the computers again learn from the driving style of the user and adapt to it's old ways. If you replace a battery by simply disconnecting the battery rather than keeping a 12V source connected to the car during the changing process, then some (definitely not all) computers get a reset and as a result, revert to factory defaults by design (in this particular case possibly resulting in a peppier user experience). If the driving style of the owner is so consistent that it gets learned by the ECU/TCU (auto adapting) to the point that the selected mode of operation is often more like economy, then THAT is the driver's experience that will be felt. Going to upset a lot of people but here goes:īattery replacement (and not necessarily for new either) can and do cause a "peppier" engine response on some ECUs and TCUs in a roundabout way:
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