Fast charging infrastructure for electric vehicles: Today's situation and future needs
Journal article, 2018

Potential users of plug-in electric vehicles often ask for public charging facilities before buying vehicles . Furthermore, the speed of public charging is often expected to be similar to conventional refueling. For this reason, research on and political interest in public charging focus more and more on fast charging options with higher power rates, yet estimates for future needs are rare. This paper tries to fill this gap by analyzing current charging behavior from a large charging data set from Sweden and Norway and take the findings to calibrate a queuing model for future fast charging infrastructure needs. We find that the ratio of battery electric vehicles to public fast charging points can be similar to other alternative fuels in the future (close to one fast charging point per 1000 vehicles for high power rates of 150 kW). In addition, the surplus on the electricity prices for payoff is only 0.05–0.15 €/kWh per charging point. However, charging infrastructure needs highly depend on battery sizes and power rates that are both likely to increase in the future.

Fast charging

Public charging

Electric vehicles

Author

T. Gnann

Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI

Simon Funke

Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI

Niklas Jakobsson

Chalmers, Space, Earth and Environment, Physical Resource Theory

Patrick Plötz

Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI

Frances Sprei

Chalmers, Space, Earth and Environment, Physical Resource Theory

Anders Bennehag

Exigal Technologies AB

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment

1361-9209 (ISSN)

Vol. 62 314-329

Subject Categories

Other Chemical Engineering

Vehicle Engineering

Energy Systems

DOI

10.1016/j.trd.2018.03.004

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5/23/2018