Public charging infrastructure for plug-in electric vehicles: What is it worth?

Is awareness of public charging associated with consumer interest in plug-in electric vehicles?

What is the future of public charging infrastructure for electric vehicles? – A techno-economic assessment of public charging points for Germany

Electric vehicles are able to reduce local and global emissions from the transport sector and thereby could help to slow down global warming if they achieved significant market shares. As all other vehicles, they need a charging or refuelling infrastructure to be built up simultaneously to vehicle market penetration. With the current disability to store energy for long distance trips in batteri...

Sustainability SI: Optimal Prices of Electricity at Public Charging Stations for Plug-in Electric Vehicles

With an increasing deployment of plug-in electric vehicles, evaluating and mitigating the impacts of additional electrical loads created by these vehicles on power distribution grids become more important. This paper explores the use of prices of electricity at public charging stations as an instrument, in couple of road pricing, to better manage both power distribution and urban transportation...

Batteries Charging Systems for Electric and Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles

Nowadays, energy efficiency is a top priority, boosted by a major concern with climatic changes and by the soaring oil prices in countries that have a large dependency on imported fossil fuels. A great part of the oil consumption is currently allocated to the transportation sector and a large portion of that is used by road vehicles. According to the international energy outlook report, the tra...

Infrastructure Issues regarding the Ultrafast Charging of Electric Vehicles

This paper is devoted to the infrastructure issues arising from the ultrafast charging of electric vehicles in the timeframe of ~5 minutes. To mitigate variances and peaks caused by high energy transfer rate and pulse-like load, an ultrafast charging station must be partially decoupled from the utility grid by the usage of intermediate energy buffers. The perspective charging station load and i...