Driving the future - electric mobility a paradigm shift & its challenges

Abstract

Electric Vehicles (EVs) have witnessed an unprecedented global interest in recent times, emerging as the one of the most promising alternate power train technologies with zero tailpipe emissions and long-term economic viability. The global automotive industry is at the cusp of a paradigm shift from internal combustion engine vehicles to zero emission vehicles. Indian government’s sights firmly set on making India a nation chiefly running on electric transportation by 2030. There are lot of challenges in adopting EV in India with lack of supporting supply chain, manufacturing and infrastructure ecosystem. Four technology driven trends Electrification, Shared mobility, Connectivity and Autonomous driving are leading the automotive industry in India. This paper functionally designs an efficient electric vehicle telematics framework for smart transportation aiming at providing an EV- related advertisement via digital multimedia broadcasting. Taking advantage of information technology and wireless communication, the telematics system can support electric vehicle tracking, vehicle sharing, charging station selection and location data analysis. The electric vehicle charge service develops a reservation protocol between drivers and stations, charge station scheduling and path adaption according to a new charge plan. In addition, as a promising business model, electric vehicle sharing needs station placement and relocation schemes to which a previous pick up point analysis result van be a helpful guide. The telematics framework enriches the related applications with diverse building blocks and thus accelerates the penetration of electric vehicles into our daily life.