A New Model for Optimal Deployment of Electric Vehicle Charging and Battery Swapping Stations

Abstract

It is recognized widely that the electric vehicle is of vast potential as an environment-friendly traffic tool. And the construction of the charging and battery swap stations is of critical importance for popularizing it. However, the deployment of the charging station is far from mature even though the construction is being undertaken in some cities. In order to reduce the cost and land use, many researchers and practitioners advocate an oil-electricity union, i.e., we can build the charging and battery swap stations at the existing gas stations. This paper proposes a new location model based on the set cover model taking the existing traditional gas station network as the candidate sites to determine the distribution of the charging and battery swap stations. A numerical experiment is presented to illustrate and verify the proposed model. Our model can help governments to promote the development of the electric vehicle.