Perspectives of electric vehicles: customer suitability and renewable energy integration

Abstract

Nowadays most car makers are about to start the production of battery electric vehicles and rangeextended vehicles in series. Two crucial questions arise, one concerning the customer suitability of these vehicles, and other concerning the integration in the power system. For this purpose daily trips from an extensive survey of passenger transportation were simulated with electric vehicles (based on real world models) to analyze suitability of the electric vehicles and to identify the boundaries for load management of the electric vehicle fleet. The impact on the future power system, in terms of generation capacity requirements and utilization as well as of generator start-ups, has been analyzed using the optimization tool REMix considering both uncontrolled and controlled charging.