ZipCharge Go, the groundbreaking portable EV charger, wins British Engineering Excellence Award – EQ Mag Pro

• ZipCharge Go wins major industry award for R&D project of the year

• British Engineering Excellence praises ZipCharge for automotive industry rigour R&D process and standards

• Portable electric vehicle charger – a power bank on wheels – enables EV drivers to charge wherever they park

• Prestigious engineering award ceremony recognises top British talent and innovation

London : ZipCharge, the pioneer in portable everyday EV charging, today announces winning a prestigious British Engineering Excellence Award. The award for the R&D Project of the Year was given in recognition of ZipCharge’s exacting R&D programme and putting the game-changing portable Electric Vehicle (EV) charger through meticulous automotive industry car development processes and standard trials to ensure it is ready for market in early 2023.

The revolutionary Go portable EV charger is now advancing to validation prototype (VP) stage with designs released for manufacture and hardware testing well underway.

ZipCharge Co-founder Richie Sibal said “Winning this award is terrific recognition of the hard work and dedication the team has invested in making the ZipCharge Go a portable EV charger you can use every day, whatever the weather and in any location. Our customers will expect their EV power bank to be as robust and hardwearing as their vehicle, so we have implemented exhaustive automotive industry testing standards to the unit, the electronics and the software. We’re highly confident it will work perfectly wherever they park their EVs”.

ZipCharge Co-founder Jonathan Carrier said “ZipCharge as a great example of British engineering and innovation. Winning this award underlines the UK’s position as leaders at the forefront of electrification. The UK is globally recognised as engineering some of the best EVs in the world, from the Nissan Leaf to the LEVC Taxi. Now our EV charging products are engineered to the same exacting quality”.

Chairperson of the Awards and Stakeholder Engagement Director at the Advanced Propulsion Centre, Philippa Oldham, said: “ZipCharge took an innovative approach to develop a product that addresses a real need in the fast-growing EV market. It’s a simple concept, but with quite complex technical challenges and the judges were impressed with how they managed this. The value and use case for a portable EV charger is evident, with the potential to break down barriers to EV ownership and I look forward to seeing this product come to market.”

The British Engineering Excellence Awards have been running since 2009 to champion and celebrate design and innovation within the UK. Since then, the BEEAs have grown in size and stature with both large and small businesses competing for the prestigious prizes, competing on a level playing field, judged solely on the quality of their engineering.

The ZipCharge Go removes a common barrier to EV ownership – by bringing the possibility of home charging to anyone who can’t currently plug-in at their house. In the UK alone, 8.5 million or 40% of car-owning households are without designated or off-street parking. Elsewhere, this figure reaches 60% for example in Italy, Spain, Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea and in major cities in the USA, China and India.

About ZipCharge

ZipCharge is creating the world’s first global portable EV charging network to serve a billion people with convenient and low-cost charging wherever they park. The company mission is to democratise EV charging by removing the main barrier to electric vehicle ownership. In the UK alone, 8.5 million or 40% of car owning households don’t have designated off-street parking and can’t charge at home. ZipCharge has developed a range of portable EV chargers that are compact, affordable, and connected, providing sufficient range for daily driving. The chargers are designed to be simple to use for personal use at home, work and other destinations – anywhere a driver parks their car. The ZipCharge portable charging platform combines hardware, software, machine learning and innovative ownership models to make EV charging more affordable, convenient, and lower cost by utilising the charger as a local energy storage device to provide flexibility and resilience for the grid through the ZipCharge intelligent energy management system.

ZipCharge has been nominated as a top 50 start-up for the European Start-up Prize for Mobility.

About the British Engineering Excellence Awards

The British Engineering Excellence Awards were launched in 2009 to champion and celebrate engineering design and innovation within the UK. Since then, the BEEAs have grown in stature and in the range and number of entries to become the foremost engineering accolade for design engineering. Small and large British companies are encouraged to submit their entries into the appropriate categories for consideration. Here they compete on a level playing field where the quality of engineering design is the primary factor. Each year, hundreds of entries are debated and analysed by a judging panel of industry experts, which includes the winners of the previous year’s Grand Prix and Design Engineer of the Year Awards.