Battery electric vehicles combined with renewable energies have a huge potential to reduce CO2emissions, especially in the field of motorized individual transport. However, a future change from combustion engines to electric drives leads to new problems and challenges. From the perspective of energy engineering, among others, the following questions arise:• Where should be charging infrastructure for electric vehicles created?• Which connection power should be provided?• How big is the additional grid load?• What must be done to prevent overloading?These questions are dealt with in the Austrian research projects "Smart Electric Mobility" and "V2G -Strategies" with national partners from academia and industry (funded by the Austrian Climate and Energy Fund, programme "New Energy 2020"). The methods and selected results are presented in this paper.
The rapid growth of the power demand in the transport sector results in a dramatic increase of carbon dioxide emissions. This is only one of many reasons why alternative drive concepts, especially electric mobility, have never been more in focus than today.A future change from combustion engines to electrical drives leads to additional loads, which gives rise to the necessity to take corrective measures in the energy supply sector. In order to be able to scrutinize the impacts on the power grid, a model has been developed with the help of the software MATLAB to generate stochastic load profiles for electric vehicles. The model exclusively deals with electric vehicles with lithium ion batteries. All parameters originate from the transport statistics of the motorized individual traffic in Austria. In the end the calculated outcome of a driving profile mix for 100 battery powered electric vehicles is consolidated into a total load profile. The resulting implications of some uncontrolled and controlled charging scenarios are discussed. As a consequence of the assumption that most charging processes take place in residential areas, a comparison of the overall load profiles with standardized load profiles for regular households is carried out.If the charging processes are started immediately after the respective arrivals at home without being controlled, this will result in a rise of the evening load peak. It is shown that by means of several load cycles per day -provided the expansion of the charging infrastructure -this negative effect is limited. Anyway, the overall goal is a well controlled consumer-oriented charging process in order to shift the energy consumption to the night load depression. For this purpose several scenarios are elaborated and its advantages and drawbacks are described. Finally various approaches for the implementation of the highlighted scenarios are presented.
This paper describes selected results of the scientific accompanying research of the e-mobility model region "e-pendler in niederösterreich" which is a co-financed model region of the Climate and Energy Fund in Austria and the province of Lower Austria. The purpose of the project is to evaluate the usability of electric vehicles for commuters in Austria. For this, a group of thirty-seven participants were analyzed. With the derived charging profiles and traffic analysis important statements for future problems are possible.The research is divided into three parts. First of all, the commuters' behavior is considered. As second part specific charging profiles are analyzed and the effect of the charging power on the switching point (change from constant current phase to constant voltage phase) is shown. At last the impact of the EV's on the distribution grid is investigated.
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