During our Q10 FEVER consortium meeting at the Utilita Bowl, Southampton, on 26^th March 2025, members of the FEVER Industrial Advisory Board, namely Hugh Brennan (UK Managing Director, Hive Energy) and Dr Nick Head (Head of Sustainability, XPO Logistics) visited the Wide Lane containerised demonstrator and witnessed this fully off-grid system charging an electric van.

Southampton University members of the FEVER project team exhibited and promoted a fully off-grid solution to electric vehicle (EV) charging at the recent University of Southampton Science and Engineering Day (SED) on the 15^th March 2025. This was the 2^nd year running that FEVER have presented at the annual University of Southampton Science and Engineering Festival (www.sotsef.co.uk), delivered as part of the national British Science Week.

Mr Henry Green, Deputy Director of Strategy at Ofgem, visited the first FEVER containerised demonstrator system, based at the University of Southampton Wide Lane Sports Fields, on Thursday 20^th February 2025. Although the weather was not great on the day(!), Henry was impressed by the installation and operation of the first fully off-grid, containerised demonstration of the FEVER EV (electric vehicle) charging station and commented: “It was great to visit the demonstrator up close. Innovations like this have the potential to play a critical role in our future system, and it’s really impressive seeing first hand the energy and ambition of the people involved.”

The FEVER project team were delighted to be invited to exhibit their ‘demonstration’ off-grid EV charging solution at the recent Waitrose Farming Conference 2024 , on the John Lewis Partnership Leckford Estate, on Wednesday 8th May 2024.

The rapid rise in electric vehicles (EVs) in the UK for domestic and commercial use is helping to decarbonise the transport sector, as well as affording benefits to residential air quality. As a society, this is clearly a good thing, if we are to tackle the growing spectre of climate change and to help prevent life-curtailing respiratory diseases. However, if we scratch beneath the surface of this positive drive towards electrification, there are hidden depths that should be considered; including the extent to which access to the benefits of electrification are fair.

The FEVER project team exhibited a solar photovoltaic (pv) powered, off-grid, solution for electric vehicle (EV) charging on Saturday 16th March 2024, as part of the University of Southampton’s Science and Engineering Festival (https://www.sotsef.co.uk/). This event was delivered as part of the national British Science Week.

Part of the FEVER team (Prof Andy Cruden and Mr Andy Westerman) drove a Kia Niro battery EV from Southampton to Manchester (and back to Southampton!) on Wednesday 10th Jan 2024, to visit one of the FEVER partners, Siemens, to view and discuss the suitability of the new Siemens SiCharge-D high rate CCS type EV fast charging unit. Convenience and cost targets were defined!

The Powering Net Zero Week 2023 was held in Glasgow from 14-17 November. The event had three conferences, including Renewable Power Generation (RPG), Energy Storage, and EVI: Charging Ahead, where attendees learned and discussed the most relevant challenges for the UK to meet net zero. A team from the University of Sheffield and the University of Southampton attended this event and presented their findings from the FEVER project through oral presentations and a poster.