Contribution of Driving Efficiency and Vehicle-to-Grid to Eco-Design

David Borge-Diez, Pedro Miguel Ortega-Cabezas, Antonio Colmenar-Santos and Jorge-Juan Blanes-Peiró
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David Borge-Diez: Department of Electrical and Control Engineering, Universidad de León, 24007 León, Spain
Pedro Miguel Ortega-Cabezas: Department of Electric, Electronic and Control Engineering, UNED, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Antonio Colmenar-Santos: Department of Electric, Electronic and Control Engineering, UNED, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Jorge-Juan Blanes-Peiró: Department of Electrical and Control Engineering, Universidad de León, 24007 León, Spain

Energies, 2020, vol. 13, issue 15, 1-29

Abstract: Designing eco-friendly products involves energy efficiency improvements. Eco-friendly products must consider not only raw materials and manufacturing processes to improve energy efficiency but also energy needed when designing them. This research shows how eco-routing (ER), eco-charging (EC), eco-driving (EDR), vehicle-to-grid (V2G) and electric vehicles (EVs) can contribute to the reduction of energy consumption during product design. To do this, a group of 44 engineers assigned to the project was chosen to assess the total energy available for V2G when driving EVs from their homes to the design center by using ER, ED and EC by running an application coded by the authors. The energy stored in EVs was used to quantify the reduction in energy consumption of the buildings present in the design center. The results show that the energy saving ranges from 2.89% to 6.9% per day—in other words, 93 kWh per day during the design process. In addition, the fact of making the design process greener implies that renewable energies (REs) are integrated better during the design process. By running the application, drivers are informed about the RE mix when the charging process takes place. Finally, this research shows that current policies make V2G and vehicle-to-home techniques not compatible.

Keywords: eco-design; energy efficiency; eco-routing; eco-charging; eco-driving; renewable energies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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