Abstract
Global warming has been increasingly concerning, and international society has been taking various measures to mitigate this issue. Since the electric vehicle has important and generally beneficial impacts on environment protection, grid construction, and operation economical efficiency improvement, many countries have stressed the status of electric vehicle promotion in future planning. As China is the world’s largest carbon dioxide emitter, the Chinese government has taken various acts to reduce emissions, of which promoting electric vehicle is an effective one. This paper attempts to present a critical review of the current EV situations including the market sales, charging infrastructure, battery performances and policies in China. The survey of customer preferences and acceptance to electric vehicle indicate that purchasing behaviors are affected by four factors: charge inconvenience, short battery range, cost and psychological factors. According to the China’s situation, recommendations including diversified energy supplement approaches, time-of-use charging price mechanism, vehicle-to-grid technology and enlarge price subsidy scope are proposed to accelerate the development of the electric vehicle industry.
Highlights
Electric vehicles (EVs) are of great value in three aspects: environment protection, grid construction, and economical efficiency improvement
EVs may act as power plant units when they are integrated with smart gird deployment
Through analyzing the current situation of electric vehicles industry and reviewing overall policies in China, this paper aims to find out the problems faced by EV market and put forward recommendations for further development
Summary
Electric vehicles (EVs) are of great value in three aspects: environment protection, grid construction, and economical efficiency improvement. EVs may act as power plant units when they are integrated with smart gird deployment For these purposes, many countries start to promote energy storage technologies and carry out policies to introduce EV into daily life. EV industries are growing fast in many developed countries, such as the United States, the European Union, and Japan. Germany aims to maintain 1 million cumulative EVs including BEVs, PHEVs, fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) by 2020, and 5 million by 2030. Japan claimed to be the second largest share of the global PHEV market, largely due to the increasing sales of the Toyota plug-in Prius. Through analyzing the current situation of electric vehicles industry and reviewing overall policies in China, this paper aims to find out the problems faced by EV market and put forward recommendations for further development
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