Electric Vehicle Fast Charging Needs in Cities and along Corridors

Electric Vehicle Fast Charging Needs in Cities and along Corridors

Wolbertus, R. (TU Delft Transport and Logistics; Hogeschool van Amsterdam)
van den Hoed, Robert (Hogeschool van Amsterdam)

2019

Fast charging is seen as a means to facilitate long-distance driving for electric vehicles (EVs). As a result, roll-out planning generally takes a corridor approach. However, with higher penetration of electric vehicles in urban areas, cities contemplate whether inner-city fast chargers can be an alternative for the growing amount of slow public chargers. For this purpose, more knowledge is required in motives and preferences of users and actual usage patterns of fast chargers. Similarly, with increasing charging speeds of fast chargers and different modes (taxi, car sharing) also switching to electric vehicles, the effect of charging speed should be evaluated as well as preferences amongst different user groups. This research investigates the different intentions and motivations of EV drivers at fast charging stations to see how charging behaviour at such stations differs using both data analysis from charging stations as a survey among EV drivers. Additionally, it estimates the willingness of EV drivers to use fast charging as a substitute for on-street home charging given higher charging speeds. The paper concludes that limited charging speeds imply that EV drivers prefer parking and charging over fast charging but this could change if battery developments allow higher charging speeds

Choice experiment
Electric vehicles
Fast charging
Level 2 charging
Public charging
Survey

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:9a6c49d2-13a9-413e-a1d9-01b536561ecc

https://doi.org/10.3390/wevj10020045

2032-6653

World Electric Vehicle Journal, 10 (2), 45-57

Institutional Repository

journal article

© 2019 R. Wolbertus, Robert van den Hoed