Cenex, the UK’s first Centre of Excellence for low carbon vehicle technologies deployed four electric passenger cars in the North East of England with the aim of studying the integration of electric vehicles into fleets, accelerating the adoption of electric vehicles in the area and studying the efficiency and performance of the vehicles.

During the six month trial, organisations took part by integrating one to four electric two seater passenger cars into their fleets and allowing qualitative and quantitative data to be collected.

The key findings and conclusions are drawn from a robust data sample covering

• electric vehicle integration into ten different vehicle fleets
• a total of 190 questionnaires returned from the 264 different individuals who drove the vehicles during the trial
• three drive events capturing the opinions of the general public both before and after a test drive in an electric vehicle.