Required range of electric vehicles – an analysis of longitudinal mobility data

Juliane Stark; Christoph Link; Dragan Simic; Thomas Bäuml

Required range of electric vehicles – an analysis of longitudinal mobility data

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Author(s): Juliane Stark ¹ ; Christoph Link ¹ ; Dragan Simic ² ; Thomas Bäuml ²
- Affiliations: 1: Department of Landscape, Spatial and Infrastructure Sciences, Institute for Transport Studies, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Peter Jordan St. 82, 1190 Vienna, Austria;
  2: Mobility Department, Electric Drive Technologies, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Giefinggasse 2, 1210 Vienna, Austria
Source: Volume 9, Issue 2, March 2015, p. 119 – 127
DOI: 10.1049/iet-its.2013.0019 , Print ISSN 1751-956X, Online ISSN 1751-9578

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This is an open access article published by the IET under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License
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Received 29/01/2013, Accepted 16/01/2014, Revised 08/01/2014, Published 17/04/2014

Conventional cars allow their users to decide about a journey's modalities largely independent. Electric vehicles (EVs) also must ensure this to be a real substitute from the user's point of view. This study focuses on range as a crucial technical feature of EVs. Many of the existing studies underestimate range requirements, as they are based on (i) one-day analyses and on (ii) mean values of daily trip distances. These data are not appropriate to answer questions on user needs; longitudinal mobility data are more suitable. This study analyses both, existing mobility data and new recorded global positioning system (GPS) data with regard to range requirements. Particularly, it was analysed whether or not identified daily driving cycles can be fulfilled with EVs assuming different charging opportunities. The analysis shows that GPS-recorded driving cycles of 80% of small-scale vehicles, 67% of midsized vehicles and 40% of sport utility vehicles can be realised with EVs.

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