Journal
SUSTAINABILITY
Volume 14, Issue 19, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/su141912077
Keywords
electric vehicles; sustainable mobility; smart charging; electric car-sharing; charging management system; battery model; power flows forecasting; operation modes
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Electric car-sharing is gaining popularity in European cities. Managing an electric car fleet is more complex than a traditional fleet due to longer refueling times and limited range. This paper proposes a smart charging method that optimizes the utilization of charging points to support electric car-sharing operators.
Electric car-sharing (ECS) is an increasingly popular service in many European cities. The management of an ECS fleet is more complex than its thermal engine counterpart due to the longer refueling time and the limited autonomy of the vehicles. To ensure adequate autonomy, the ECS provider needs high-capacity charging hubs located in urban areas where available peak power is often limited by the system power rating. Lastly, electric vehicle (EV) charging is typically entrusted to operators who retrieve discharged EVs in the city and connect them to the charging hub. The timing of the whole charging process may strongly differ among the vehicles due to their different states of charge on arrival at the hub. This makes it difficult to plan the charging events and leads to non-optimal exploitation of charging points. This paper provides a smart charging (SC) method that aims to support the ECS operators' activity by optimizing the charging points' utilization. The proposed SC promotes charging duration management by differently allocating powers among vehicles as a function of their state of charge and the desired end-of-charge time. The proposed method has been evaluated by considering a real case study. The results showed the ability to decrease charging points downtime by 71.5% on average with better exploitation of the available contracted power and an increase of 18.8% in the average number of EVs processed per day.
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