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The use of battery electric vehicles (BEV) has not seen equal treatment across the US with consumers in non-urban and rural areas reporting themselves as the least likely group to consider purchasing a BEV. Studies show that rural customers are more susceptible to longer daily driving distances, insufficient charging infrastructure, and lower consumer awareness, all of which decrease BEV adoption...
Most of the countries have given emphasis to get rid of “Energy Crisis”. Bangladesh is not excluded from that. Since we could not properly eradicate the problem, we are suffering from serious load shedding. The city dwellers use IPS as an instant solution without knowing the economic and environmental effects in the long run. Green energy could be a suitable replacement of IPS to avoid the unexpected...
In Bangladesh the electric vehicles powered by rechargeable batteries are becoming popular day by day. But it is a matter of great regret that a big amount of power is being used daily to recharge their batteries at the recharging stations. As Bangladesh faces acute power crisis this has become a big challenge. Renewable energy resources can play an important role in this regard. This paper has proposed...
This paper extends the concept of our proposed [1]-[3] electricity sharing system as a complement or alternative to a feed-in tariff (FiT) to achieve CO2-neutral transportation in cities. In our proposed system, electricity generated from widely introduced solar photovoltaic panels (PVs) is stored in the “cars not in use” in a city. In Japan, almost half of the cars in the central Tokyo metropolitan...
From the years 2009–2012 about 330 battery-electric passenger cars (M1) and light-duty vehicles (N1) were operated in a large-scale demonstration project in Hamburg, Germany's second largest city (pop. 1.8m). The vehicles were used in commercial fleets and businesses with half of the vehicles being deployed in large enterprises and the other half at authorities and public enterprises as well as SME...
Developing electric vehicles (EVs) has been chosen as national strategy as solution to energy security and urban air pollution by China. China has invested much to develop electric vehicle technologies. For EVs' penetration, China government develop ‘ten-city one thousand-EVs’ demonstration program in 25 cities from 2008. For mass penetration of EVs, there still exist many challenges, especially for...
This study presents an approach on the life cycle assessment and environmental impact of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles, specially the iron phosphate technology based battery (LFP), through evaluating the different stages in the whole life of the battery starting with the manufacturing stage and then proceeding with the evaluation of its use in Spain until reaching the end-of-life stage,...
Residential solar photovoltaic power generation systems are becoming increasingly popular now-a-days in South Africa with more and more customers now installing photovoltaic (PV) systems in order to power their homes. This paper presents the modeling and economic analysis of a small scale solar PV power generation system aimed to supply middle income residential customers. The modeling is done using...
Rapid growth of population, industrialization, and rise in living standards of communities has resulted in increasing environmental pollution and loss of natural resources, but also in the inaccessibility to quality energy services, especially the most and highly desired electricity particularly for majority of the population living in remote areas. So, in a bid to respond and tackle both at the same...
In January 2009, Toyota City was chosen as Eco-Model City for the realization of low-carbon society. As a transport initiative for an Eco-Model City, Toyota City has installed charging facilities that utilize solar energy in order to promote the usage of eco-cars such as plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. The new solar charging system for Toyota City that combines the solar power storage unit with...
Shifting load away from the system peak into evening hours when the load is low and the network's capacity is high is referred to as peak shaving and valley filling. This paper develops an approach to enforce such a charging behavior to a large fleet of individual electric vehicles. The vehicles move in a transportation network which is mapped to a realistic urban electricity distribution system....
In this paper the Electric Vehicle's (EV's) spatial load forecast is studied, highlighting their current situation in Hungary. The impact of electric vehicles charging on electricity consumption, which generates a concentrated power demand at specific points of the network, is modeled. The extra power requires the development of network capacity, the extra energy requires more power generation. It...
Utilization of renewable energy resources is the most important field in a developing country like Bangladesh. In Bangladesh the electric vehicles powered by rechargeable batteries are popular day by day. But it is a matter of great regret that a lot of power is used daily to recharge the batteries. As Bangladesh faces acute power crisis this is a big challenge. This paper describes an analysis and...
The results from a proof-of-concept study combining modern building automation systems (BAS) with dynamic electricity tariffs are presented. The use of a building automation system that optimizes the electricity demand of a retail end-consumer while managing a local battery unit and respecting all comfort constraints, e.g., on room temperature, illuminance, and indoor air quality, is proposed. The...
Auxiliary loads, such as lighting systems, electric motors, air compressor, pumps, fans, and other electric loads, reduce the fuel economy of conventional internal combustion engine (ICE), hybrid, and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. Hybrid technology makes use of electric energy stored in batteries to power the drive train of a vehicle and increase the fuel economy, but it also comes with a high...
Smartgrids are a key element in the supply of energy services to the cities of the future. The impact of the use of more variable energy resources is extremely important for handling these energy flows. The different energy services have to be fulfilled: lighting, appliances, heating/cooling and transport. Both residential and commercial buildings are to be considered. The electricity smartgrid operates...
This paper investigates a smart charging strategy and a Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) strategy and benchmarks the economic benefits for the electric vehicle (EV) owner against a zero-intelligence charging strategy in a simulation-based analysis. Smart charging optimizes the timing of charging the EV and V2G additionally allows for reselling electricity to the energy market.
Air pollution, climate change and traffic congestion are three major challenges facing the Middle East and North African (MENA) countries today. The current transport system, especially in large urban centers, requires significant improvements to reduce the current levels of carbon emissions and traffic congestion. There is, therefore, a pressing need to have an adequate, efficient and clean transport...
Currently in Colombia, it's been developed a massive public transportation systems in several major cities based on bus-type vehicles that use fuel and gas engines. This fact is not currently considering the electrical traction as it is made at the "Metro de Medellin" - the unique metro railway in Colombia- that uses an electrical distribution system along the railway with the advantage...
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