In an ideal world an electric vehicle driver could pull up to any parking space and charge their car. As of now that day is still a long way off.
“DockChain can create a world where you don’t have to think about which parking space has charging because they all do,” he says. “Our technology is fundamentally different to any other solution out there, and where rapid vehicle turnaround is required – with commercial fleets, for example – it can remove the operational inconvenience of having to physically move vehicles around to use the chargers,” adds Sheehy, whose company was the overall winner of the 2021 VentureLaunch accelerator programme run by NovaUCD.DockChain works a bit like a domestic extension bar but with more going on behind the scenes.
GoEve is a joint UCD and Imperial College London spin-out set up in February of last year. Its founding team of five are drawn from a mix of technology, automotive, energy and mobility backgrounds, and the company employs seven people between full and part-time employees.