EECA LEVCF FUND 03-149
Special Report to claim 100% available funding from Milestone 6
Milestone
Trial and evaluation of the imported 2018 model electric campervan:
description
• Van user trials
• User and technical evaluations
• Insights into mix of users
• Revision of itineraries and promotional material
• Learnings for parallel new van design
• Business systems processes for campervan operation initiated
Deliverable A report that contains, as a minimum, the following contents:
• Descriptions of user campervan trials undertaken
• Summary of results of user and technical evaluations
• Learnings to be applied to the parallel conversion of the electric van chassis
• Any changes to promotional material and itineraries implemented, and
• Any other information that you believe EECA should be aware of.
Tasks delivered
Description
• On-going user trials are in place with
thl crew booking the Nissan eNV200 van to gather an
s of user
understanding of the electric experience in charging and travel by trialing our electric
campervan
itineraries around the North Island Coastal Loop.
trials
• Robust testing was undertaken in September to fully iterate improvements to the website,
undertaken
itineraries and gather learnings for next motorhome build
Summary
• Many lines of testing have either been completed and/or are underway:
of results
o crew testing of the Nissan eNV200 to gather insights to the electric experience
of user and
o high-level user testing of the eLDV for usability and customer experience in
technical
driving the electric motorhome prototype to iterate learnings for the final build
evaluations
o thorough testing of the electric itineraries represented on
www.BritzEV.com
o booking process testing ahead of rental bookings opening up at the end of the
month, and
o preparation for robust vehicle performance testing ahead of final build.
• See evidence as follows:
insights to the electric experience – with ongoing crew testing of the
electric experience with outputs, themes, learning captured as per example following
• See evidence as follows: insi
ghts to usability and customer experience in driving the electric
motorhome prototype achieved with the testing of the LDV. This provided excellent insights
for the customer experience, helped us to test the act of charging specific to this vehicle, and
allows us to analyse what cable requirement will be best for the motorhome configuration
• See evidence as follows: thorough
testing of the electric itineraries was completed in
September traveling both the North and South Island routes represented on
www.BritzEV.com
providing extensive edits to the information represented (see “Any changes to promotional
material and itineraries implemented below”) and gave
thl an opportunity to meet with
holiday park owners face to face to walk through the project and review locations for charging
installations
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• See evidence as follows: Further testing is scheduled to test booking process testing ahead of
rental bookings opening up at the end of the month, with preparation underway for robust
vehicle performance testing ahead of final build, example list of test requirements generated
from final reporting outputs expected
Learnings
• A recent full itinerary and electric vehicle test of the North and South Island provided many
to be
essential insights to customer experience particularly around the act of charging. Learning
applied to
such as a.) are the itineraries practical and representing fair and true information, b.) are the
the parallel
itinerary distances between destinations do-able, c.) are the charging facilities going to be
conversion
practical for use with the eLDV, d.)
of the
• See evidence as follows: see below itinerary edits specifically for
distance traveled. The
electric van
learning from test was that the kms traveled on this particular day may not be practical
chassis
between Waihi – Matamata – Cambridge with the outlined stop off at Hobbiton.
• See evidence as follows: Example testing of
the act of charging at with DC fast chargers and
anticipated AC charging at holiday parks. Learnings & feedback has been provided to
manufacturing regarding charging port placement on the vehicle and cable requirements for
the vehicle. Successful outcomes are a move of the location of the DC charging port, along
with the refinement of the cabling types that the manufacturer will supply with the vehicle.
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ChargeNet DC charging learnings
Coromandel Town Holiday Park Learnings
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Hot water Beach Top 10 learnings
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9(2)(a)
Any
• Extensive updates to
the www.BritzEV.com website (itineraries, vehicle info, bookings
changes to
processes) have occurred as a result of vehicle trials and itinerary testing. Everything from
promotion
overall look and feel, branding, voice, usability, mapping and content has been uplifted and
al material
updated
and
• See evidence as follows: see below example edits of Day 1 of the North Island Itinerary, along
itineraries
with updates to the general ‘The EV; page that follow
implement
ed
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We hope this satisfies requirements against EECA 03-149 agreement.
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