Smart charging of electric scooters for home to work and home to education transports from grid connected photovoltaic-systems

Author

Mesentean, Sidonia ; Feucht, Wilhelm ; Kula, Hans-Georg ; Frank, Heinz

Author_Institution

Reinhold Wurth-Univ., Heilbronn Univ., Künzelsau, Germany

fYear

2010

fDate

18-22 Dec. 2010

Firstpage

73

Lastpage

78

Abstract

The operation of electric vehicles from renewable energy systems is an environmentally compatible technology. In general this method however has in practical applications today several significant limitations. In this paper a specific combination of electric vehicles with photovoltaic systems is considered. Electric scooters, which are mainly used for home to work or home to education transports, are operated from a grid connected photovoltaic system. For this application two strategies for a smart charging of the electric scooters are investigated. The results are showing that this application allows already today an operation of electric scooters against fuel scooters with no higher costs and with significant lower CO₂-ejections.

Keywords

electric vehicles; motorcycles; photovoltaic power systems; renewable energy sources; electric scooters; electric vehicles; grid connected photovoltaic-systems; home to education transports; home to work transports; renewable energy systems; smart charging; Batteries; Education; Electric vehicles; Fuels; Motorcycles; Photovoltaic systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Energy Conference and Exhibition (EnergyCon), 2010 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Manama

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9378-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ENERGYCON.2010.5771778

Filename

5771778