MENDEL: Minimum load of electrical networks caused by charging operations of electric buses

Abstract

State-of-the-art electric driven buses used by local public transport authorities are usually restricted in their daily driving distance caused by limitations in their battery capacity. To compensate for these limitations especially on longer urban bus lines the vehicles need to be recharged with a high energy performance on short intermediate stops. In the future when entire bus fleets will be operated only electrically, a lot of buses have to be charged at the same time which will result in peaks of high energy consumption within the grid and increasing costs at the same time. This is precisely where the project MENDEL (minimum load of electrical networks caused by charging operations of electric buses) starts. The project partners elaborate a system that links the two domains Smart Grid and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) through automation.