Abstract
The transportation industry contributes a significant amount of carbon emissions and pollutants to the environment globally. The adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) has a significant potential to not only reduce carbon emissions, but also to provide needed energy storage to contribute to the adoption of distributed renewable generation. This paper focuses on a design model and methodology for increasing EV adoption through automated swapping of battery packs at battery sharing stations (BShS) as a part of a battery sharing network (BShN), which would become integral to the smart grid. Current battery swapping methodologies are reviewed and a new practical approach is proposed considering both the technical and socio-economic impacts. The proposed BShS/BShN provides novel solutions to some of the most preeminent challenges that EV adoption faces today such as range anxiety, grid reliability, and cost. Challenges and advancements specific to this solution are also discussed.
Highlights
Electric vehicles (EVs) have been deemed as being the future of mobility both by auto industry experts as well as major original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) globally
The battery sharing station (BShS) proposed in this paper is based on some of the concepts and methods that Tesla and Better Place have implemented in their battery swapping station (BSS), but it is focused on solving the issues of consumer acceptance, standardization of battery architecture and mitigation of grid impact by EV battery charging
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Summary
Electric vehicles (EVs) have been deemed as being the future of mobility both by auto industry experts as well as major original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) globally. According to [1], the EV market share is expected to grow from roughly 1% today to about 30% in Europe and around 15% in the U.S by 2025, totaling 130 million by 2030 globally This exponential increase in EV adoption within a short period of time poses significant technical challenges; grid reliability issues as the current state/capacity of generation and power distribution grid is not designed to support the load profile of this number of EVs [2,3,4]. The BShS proposed in this paper is based on some of the concepts and methods that Tesla and Better Place have implemented in their BSS, but it is focused on solving the issues of consumer acceptance, standardization of battery architecture and mitigation of grid impact by EV battery charging.
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