A New AutoMotive for Local Areas
A dedicated resource specifically designed to equip individuals working with or for local area authorities with the information they need to monitor and support the EV transition in their area.
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SHORTCUTS
About our Local Toolkit
We bring data and policy expertise to the forefront
Our mission is to help make the transition to electric vehicles faster and better. By combining our extensive knowledge of the political landscape with cutting-edge capabilities around EV data - we have created a local toolkit to help you take charge of accelerating your local EV transition.
We combine multiple datasets to paint an accurate picture
By combining our existing datasets around the EV market with real-time policy insights, and local data from your area - we have created a one stop dashboard that will audit the EV transition in your local area, and provide contextual comparisons of neighbouring authorities.
We use machine learning to augment our insights
We are able to delve deeper to help you gain more insights into your local area by combining satellite and map data to provide accurate insights around your area’s charging infrastructure. We are continuously evolving our tools to bring the latest insights into the field.
A toolkit created to meet local needs
When working with local authorities, we recognise that the most useful data is local data. Local planning is best informed by insight and micro and macro datasets insight specifically designed for a local area. Our toolkit combines these, to ensure it provides the information most relevant to your local transition.
Supporting you with accessible and easy to understand data
The transition to electric transport is complex, multidimensional, and constantly evolving. Data on the switch to electric can often be daunting or overwhelming to try and make sense of. The Local Area Toolkit presents complex data in an accessible and easy to understand way, helping you make pragmatic and informed decisions relevant to your needs.
The data you need to kickstart the transition
to electric in your area
Local area authorities have a crucial role to play in ensuring Britain effectively and equitably makes the switch to electric transport. By providing data at the local area level, we hope to support local governments as they play their part in making a fully electrified Britain a reality.
About our toolkit…
We hope this toolkit will be useful for anyone wanting to support the transition to electric vehicles in their local areas.
We expect it to be of particular interest to people working for or with local authorities on transport planning and moving towards a zero carbon local economy.
As well as people who are doing this as their job, we think there is a lot of potential value in having many other local groups and individuals supporting local EV transitions and are keen to see it reach as wide an audience as possible.
Data requests
Please read the data and licensing section of the New AutoMotive website for guidance on our approach to people re-using our content. In summary -
We are happy for this content to be re-used by organisations producing content and tools that they are also making open to local communities for free.
For other organisations who would like to re-use this content for commercial and/or closed proprietary products and services we ask that you get in touch to discuss this.
Copyright
All Electric Car Count content - including charts and releases - is copyrighted under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). For more information, see the Data and Licensing page.
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We are a small Community Interest Company called New AutoMotive CIC that was set up in 2020 to support the transition to Electric Vehicles. We are a not-for-profit and measure our success by whether we can help make the transition happen quickly and smoothly.
You can see more of the official information about us and our activities in our UK Companies House registration.
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We mainly receive funding from foundations with an interest in climate change.
As a Community Interest Company we can engage in more traditional forms of commercial activity and will do this where we think this is helpful for the transition. For example, we may receive referral fees where we direct someone to a supplier of Electric Vehicles as this both helps someone make the shift and provides income we can use to promote EV use more broadly.
In all cases, income received is converted back into activities supporting our core mission rather than being converted into profits for shareholders.
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Yes, we are happy to provide all of this content free at the point of use to anyone working on the transition to EVs in local areas. We believe that sharing this as widely as possible will help us deliver on our mission to help local communities with the switchover to EVs.
If you wish to take our content away to use somewhere else then please see the licensing section below for guidance on this.
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Our mission is to help make the transition to electric vehicles faster and better. If this toolkit helps people with local transition planning then this is success for us.
We are interested in knowing who is using the service and about any benefits it has given them as this helps us to evaluate whether building it was worthwhile. This is less about mass analytics and more about direct engagement with the community that we hope will build up around the service.
If we can show that this service is valuable then this may help us with future bids for funding from foundations and other bodies supporting the transition. So there may be some indirect financial benefit to us from usage of the service.
We may also do some paid-for work with local groups or national government agencies related to local EV transition plans and this service does act as a showcase for what we can do.
Any new funds that we get from foundations or consultancy projects will again go towards fulfilling our core mission rather than as profit to shareholders.
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We ran a beta program for the service between July and September 2021 and are now working on a full version with a target release date of June 2022.
To access our existing version, go to members.newautomotive.org/local
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We are currently developing this for the UK only as this is where we have expertise in the relevant data sources. We want to see the EV transition happen in every country so we are interested in seeing whether we can take the products and services we are developing and deploy them in other places.
If you are interested in the EV transition in another country and think this service could be useful there then do please get in touch at partners@newautomotive.org - we would love to explore this with you.