Will Advanced Public Charging Infrastructure Speed Up Electrification of Future Transportation?

Conference · Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 EDT 2018

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2018.8569388· OSTI ID:1494007

Xie, Fei  ^[1]; Lin, Zhenhong  ^[1]; Zhou, Yan ^[2]; Rames, Clement ^[3]; Wood, Eric ^[3]; Kontou, Eleftheria ^[4]

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1. ORNL
2. Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)
3. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
4. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

This study focuses on evaluating impacts of advanced, urban public charging infrastructure on the battery electric vehicle (BEV) adoption in the U.S market. Under various infrastructure scenarios (e.g., current and developed conditions), we investigate the infrastructure impacts on the near-term BEV adoption using a consumer-choice based market simulation approach. Our results suggest that current public charging infrastructure has continuous and significant impacts on the near-term BEV adoption. Additional infrastructure investment could further stimulate the public acceptance of BEVs. We also find that the actual infrastructure impact may vary depending on the assumption of how charging deployment could affect consumers' access of chargers and consumers' daily available charging time. However, this impact variability could be reduced when infrastructure is getting mature.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 1494007
• Resource Relation: Conference: ​The 21st IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2018) - Maui, Hawaii, United States of America - 11/4/2018 9:00:00 AM-11/7/2018 10:00:00 AM
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English