Electric Corby commission Cenex to forecast electric vehicle uptake and the required publicly accessible infrastructure for Northamptonshire using the EVEREST model.

This included:

• Forecast the number of electric vehicles in each Lower Layer Super Output Areas (LSOA) each year.
• Forecast if, and when, each vehicle will need to charge and how much energy they require.
• Determine whether the vehicle will need publicly accessible infrastructure to charge.
• Calculate how many chargepoints are required to meet this demand.
• Calculate the energy requirement from these points.

Cenex used vehicle ownership data from Department for Transport and social demographic data from the Census to forecast EV ownership uptake and assigned each of these vehicles a daily profile from National Travel Survey data, then took Field Dynamics data to determine the proportion of homes in the LSOA with a driveway, and therefore will not need publicly accessible infrastructure.