Battery Exchange Stations Research Articles

Batteries, vehicle and infrastructure: interlocking elements of a new engineering system concept for personal mobility

The concept proposed aims at overcoming deterrents to Electric Vehicle (EV) adoption. The system features quick en-route exchange of batteries, requiring minimal equipment at the battery exchange station, which stands in favour of this EV system's adoption. The human interface of the equipment was devised to satisfy ergonomic requirements. Added convenience and speed of battery exchange can be achieved with more sophisticated equipment installed at exchange stations where depleted vehicle batteries are swiftly swapped for fully charged ones in only a couple of minutes. The EV proposed has standard plug-in capability for regular battery charge. It is based on a notion of ownership beyond common entrenched models, since the battery system is to be owned by the organisations that are to provide the en-route exchange service. The paper concludes listing the most important engineering aspects that need to be dealt with in the engineering design of the system concept.

Locating battery exchange stations to serve tourism transport: A note

Electric scooters can contribute to reducing the environmental impacts of tourism transport but they have only a limited range and their use is influenced by the location of recharging facilities. This study uses integer programming to optimize the location and number of battery exchange stations. Sensitivity analyses are performed on the service capacity on each site.