scholarly journals Accelerating Electric Vehicles Adoption: Considerations for Power Utilities and Automakers

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shukrant Jagotra ◽  
Deepika Kamboj
Keyword(s):  
Electric Vehicles ◽  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Strategic Partnership ◽  
High Price ◽  
Charging Infrastructure ◽  
R And D ◽  
Charging Time ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
Power Utilities

Electric vehicles (EVs) are the biggest disruption the automotive industry has witnessed in several past decades and are expected to play a wider role in the global vehicle industry going forward. The study reviews existing literature to identify certain drivers such as zero emissions, low operational and maintenance costs and barriers around low range, less matured charging infrastructure and high price. To expedite EVs adoption by tackling these barriers, players across the EV value chain need to focus on certain practical considerations. Power utilities need to stress on building charging infrastructure, planning renewable capacity additions and reducing charging time. While for automakers, focusing on increasing investments in R and D leading to better range and lower costs, developing or acquiring EV expertise, raising awareness among others may increase EV penetration. The study also explores several areas of strategic partnership between them.

scholarly journals Perceived Usage Potential of Fast-Charging Locations

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Krause ◽  
Stefan Ladwig ◽  
Lotte Saupp ◽  
Denis Horn ◽  
Alexander Schmidt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electric Vehicles ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Charging Infrastructure ◽  
Charging Time ◽  
Points Of Interest ◽  
Fast Charging ◽  
Business Perspective ◽  
Charging Stations ◽  
User Perspectives ◽  
Model Point

Fast-charging infrastructure with charging time of 20–30 min can help minimizing current perceived limitations of electric vehicles, especially considering the unbalanced and incomprehensive distribution of charging options combined with a long perceived charging time. Positioned on optimal location from user and business perspective, the technology is assumed to help increasing the usage of an electric vehicle (EV). Considering the user perspectives, current and potential EV users were interviewed in two different surveys about optimal fast-charging locations depending on travel purposes and relevant location criteria. The obtained results show that customers prefer to rather charge at origins and destinations than during the trip. For longer distances, charging locations on axes with attractive points of interest are also considered as optimal. From the business model point of view, fast-charging stations at destinations are controversial. The expensive infrastructure and the therefore needed large number of charging sessions are in conflict with the comparatively time consuming stay.

Modeling for Segmented Tracks Planning of Roadway-Powered Electric Vehicles

2013 ◽  
Vol 385-386 ◽  
pp. 1159-1163
Author(s):  
Yong Tian ◽  
Bi Zhong Xia ◽  
Yue Sun ◽  
Zhi Hui Xu ◽  
Wei Sun
Keyword(s):  
Electric Vehicles ◽  
Energy Crisis ◽  
High Price ◽  
System Efficiency ◽  
Inductive Power Transfer ◽  
Charging Time ◽  
Cogent Argument ◽  
Driving Range ◽  
Installed Capacity ◽  
The Relationship

Electric vehicle has aroused peoples concern with soaring energy crisis and environmental degradation. However, it has not been widely used due to some drawbacks, such as the short driving range, long charging time, frequent charging requirements and high price. In order to solve these problems, the roadway-powered electric vehicles (RPEVs) based on an inductive power transfer (IPT) has been proposed. In the segmented RPEVs system, efficiency and annual cost are affected by the track distance, tracks interval, number of tracks and installed capacity of each track, etc. Aiming to such problem, the nonlinear programming (NLP) model for segmented tracks planning of RPEVs system is studied in this paper. Meanwhile, the relationship between the system efficiency and the number of loads is analyzed as a cogent argument to the application of segmented tracks.

scholarly journals A Brief Survey on Important Interconnection Standards for Photovoltaic Systems and Electric Vehicles

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Suvetha Poyyamani Poyyamani Sunddararaj ◽  
Shriram S. Rangarajan ◽  
Subashini Nallusamy ◽  
E. Randolph Collins ◽  
Tomonobu Senjyu
Keyword(s):  
Electric Vehicles ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Reliable Operation ◽  
Charging Infrastructure ◽  
Grid Systems ◽  
Pv Systems ◽  
Charging Time ◽  
Cost Distance ◽  
Smart Charging ◽  
Charging Stations

The consumer adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) has become most popular. Numerous studies are being carried out on the usage of EVs, the challenges of EVs, and their benefits. Based on these studies, factors such as battery charging time, charging infrastructure, battery cost, distance per charge, and the capital cost are considered factors in the adoption of electric vehicles and their interconnection with the grid. The large-scale development of electric vehicles has laid the path to Photovoltaic (PV) power for charging and grid support, as the PV panels can be placed at the top of the smart charging stations connected to a grid. By proper scheduling of PV and grid systems, the V2G connections can be made simple. For reliable operation of the grid, the ramifications associated with the PV interconnection must be properly addressed without any violations. To overcome the above issues, certain standards can be imposed on these systems. This paper mainly focuses on the various standards for EV, PV systems and their interconnection with grid-connected systems.

Research Regarding Design and Material for an Electrical Car Charger Shell

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 488-491
Author(s):  
Catalin Marin Buciuman ◽  
Liana Hancu ◽  
Cristian Vilau ◽  
Cristina Stefana Miron Borzan
Keyword(s):  
Composite Material ◽  
Electric Vehicles ◽  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Feasible Solution ◽  
Sheet Steel ◽  
Polymeric Composite ◽  
Extreme Conditions ◽  
Charging Infrastructure ◽  
The World ◽  
Electrical Vehicle

In the recent years, the electric vehicles have drawn great attention worldwide as a feasible solution for clean transportation. The charging infrastructure for electric vehicles is expanding throughout the world, encouraged by large investments from the automotive industry, to reduce carbon emissions. The purpose of this paper is to design the shell of an electrical vehicle charger by using polymeric composite materials. The manufacturing technology is proposed and the analysis of the product behaviour during the wind action in extreme conditions is presented. The paper includes studies and research regarding the design, the manufacturing and the simulation for the action of wind upon the product�s walls. The simulations are performed for the actual used material (ordinary sheet steel) and for the proposed composite material in order to compare the results. The composite material seems to be an adequate solution for the electric charger shell.

Drivetrain for Vehicles 2016

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
High Pressure ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Electric Vehicles ◽  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Hybrid Drive ◽  
Meeting Point ◽  
The Future

The annual VDI-Congress Drivetrain for Vehicles is the most important meeting-point for the automotive industry regarding transmissions and driveline-technology. Vehicle manufacturers, transmissions suppliers and the whole supply-chain are presenting and discussing latest technology and trends. The future of drivetrain for vehicles will become very exciting. The number of electrified drivetrains will be growing in future. Things will get more complex with a hybrid drive and packages will be much more challenging. Therefore we are keen to find intelligent solutions. Furthermore we will face significant changes. The following megatrends are going to have big impact on future drivelines and on the whole value chain: • more and more challenging regulations to reduce environmental pollution caused by traffic, • the need for electrification of drivetrain in terms of hybrids and electric vehicles, • the understanding of the drivetrain system as an overall approach, • high pressure fo...

scholarly journals An Efficient Hybrid Algorithm for Energy Expenditure Estimation for Electric Vehicles in Urban Service Enterprises

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (7) ◽  
pp. 2004
Author(s):  
Mariusz Izdebski ◽  
Marianna Jacyna
Keyword(s):  
Energy Expenditure ◽  
Electric Vehicles ◽  
Hybrid Algorithm ◽  
Ant Colony Algorithm ◽  
Environmental Safety ◽  
Utility Company ◽  
Service Companies ◽  
Charging Time ◽  
Urban Service ◽  
High Emission

The article deals with the decision problems of estimating the energy expenditure of low-emission fleets in urban service companies due to environmental safety. One of the most important problems of today’s transport policy of many city authorities is the ecological safety of its inhabitants. The basic measures are aimed at banning high-emission vehicles from city centers and promoting the introduction of zero-emission vehicles, such as electric or hybrid cars. The authors proposed an original approach to the decision model, in which the energy expenditure from the use of electric vehicles was defined as a criterion function. The boundary conditions took into account limitations typical of an electric vehicle, e.g., maximum range or battery charging time. To solve the problem, the authors proposed an efficient hybrid algorithm based on ant colony algorithm and genetic algorithm. The verification was made for the example of a utility company serving a medium-sized city in the eastern part of Poland.

scholarly journals To Represent Electric Vehicles in Electricity Systems Modelling—Aggregated Vehicle Representation vs. Individual Driving Profiles

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 539
Author(s):  
Maria Taljegard ◽  
Lisa Göransson ◽  
Mikael Odenberger ◽  
Filip Johnsson
Keyword(s):  
Electric Vehicles ◽  
Investment Model ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Charging Infrastructure ◽  
Vehicle To Grid ◽  
Long Term Storage ◽  
Electricity System ◽  
Home Location ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Storage Technologies

This study describes, applies, and compares three different approaches to integrate electric vehicles (EVs) in a cost-minimising electricity system investment model and a dispatch model. The approaches include both an aggregated vehicle representation and individual driving profiles of passenger EVs. The driving patterns of 426 randomly selected vehicles in Sweden were recorded between 30 and 73 days each and used as input to the electricity system model for the individual driving profiles. The main conclusion is that an aggregated vehicle representation gives similar results as when including individual driving profiles for most scenarios modelled. However, this study also concludes that it is important to represent the heterogeneity of individual driving profiles in electricity system optimisation models when: (i) charging infrastructure is limited to only the home location in regions with a high share of solar and wind power in the electricity system, and (ii) when addressing special research issues such as impact of vehicle-to-grid (V2G) on battery health status. An aggregated vehicle representation will, if the charging infrastructure is limited to only home location, over-estimate the V2G potential resulting in a higher share (up to 10 percentage points) of variable renewable electricity generation and an under-estimation of investments in both short- and long-term storage technologies.

BMS-driven onsite insolation charging infrastructure for electric vehicles

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vinay Gupta ◽  
Himanshu Priyadarshi ◽  
Vishnu Goyal ◽  
Kulwant Singh ◽  
Ashish Shrivastava ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electric Vehicles ◽  
Charging Infrastructure
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