Flexible Power Systems Ltd

Commercial vehicles interact with a wide range of operational and smart city systems in urban environments. Where vehicles operate and how their drivers behave impacts the service experience, quality of life and safety of residents. EVs make these fleets even more interconnected with the communities in which they operate because they must share the electr...

To apply cutting edge power electronics and control expertise to enable the further scale-up of electrification across the larger vehicles in commercial fleets, and their associated hardware and ancillary systems.

Project RESPONSEAI (Robust Emergency Services Performing Operations iN Electric with Artificial Intelligence) will examine how AI can be used in the development of an integrated zero-emission emergency service operations planning and dispatch platform. Flexible Power Systems (FPS) is a UK based SME, founded in 2018 on the principle that smart use of energ...

Cities across the world are developing and supporting digital platforms (Smart City systems) to encourage the use of technology and innovation to improve the quality of life, sustainability and resilience of urban areas. The Smarter Logistics through In-vehicle, City and Energy Data (SLICED) project aims to enhance the efficiency, resilience and safety of...

Flexible Power Systems (FPS) have developed a novel logistics and electric vehicle platform for the optimisation of battery electric light commercial vehicle ('eLCV') delivery schedules. The platform integrates electric vehicle and charging infrastructure constraints with logistics requirements to optimise the delivery schedule. Demonstrated benefits in l...

Our emergency services, like other organisations, are creating strategies for their net-zero transition. A key barrier to the introduction of zero-emission emergency response vehicles is ensuring operational performance and resilience considering limited electric vehicle range and recharging times. A future emergency service dispatch system will need to m...

The government has set a target to end the sale of ICE vans by 2030 and allow only vehicles with zero tailpipe emissions to be sold from 2035\. Groups like EV100 represent companies going beyond these targets to achieve complete transitions to EV before 2030\. The implication is that with 6 year ownership cycles, these fleets need to purchase 100% EVs fro...

Light Goods Vehicles (LGVs) contribute around 15% of UK greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from road transport and 33% of nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions, whilst making up <10% of vehicles on our roads. Government policy, as described in the Road to Zero report, is for all new van sales to be zero emissions by 2040, and 40% of new vans to be ultra-low emission...

"Light Goods Vehicles (LGVs) account for 15% of UK GHG emissions from road transport and 33% of NOx emissions, while making up just 10% of vehicles. In commercial fleets LGVs are heavily utilised to meet businesses' and household consumers' demands for increasing service quality and extended delivery windows, and LGVs often operate at high load factors fo...

"Heavy Goods Vehicles (HGVs) account for around 17% of UK GHG emission from road transport and 21% of NOx emissions, while making up just 5% of vehicle miles and 2% of vehicles. Tackling HGV emissions is challenging because they consume large quantities of energy, are used for business-critical logistics functions by a risk averse customer base and are ty...

"The commercial vehicle (CV) sector including HGVs, Light Vans, Buses and Coaches accounts for 34% of UK transport related CO2 emissions, globally HGVs contribute 7% emissions. They also impact air quality with about 39% of NOx and about 19% of PM2.5 emissions from transport coming from the sector, despite commercial vehicles accounting for less than 13% ...