Energy Logistics Cost Study for Wireless Charging Transportation Networks

Correa Diego, Gil Jakub and Moyano Christian
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Correa Diego: Tandon School of Engineering, New York University, Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA
Gil Jakub: Immersive and Autonomous Systems, Collins Aerospace, Cedar Rapids, IA 52498, USA
Moyano Christian: Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Azuay, Cuenca 010204, Ecuador

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 11, 1-13

Abstract: Many cities around the world encourage the transition to battery-powered vehicles to minimize the carbon footprint of the transportation sector. Deploying large-scale wireless charging infrastructures to charge electric transit buses when loading and unloading passengers have become an effective way to reduce emissions. The standard plug-in electric vehicles have a limited amount of power stored in the battery, resulting in frequent stops to refill the energy. Optimal siting of wireless charging bus stops is essential to reducing these inconveniences and enhancing the sustainability performance of a wireless charging bus fleet. Wireless charging is an innovation of transmitting power through electromagnetic induction to portable electrical devices for energy renewal. Online Electric Vehicle (OLEV) is a new technology that allows the vehicle to be charged while it is in motion, thus removing the need to stop at a charging station. Developed by the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), OLEV picks up electricity from power transmitters buried underground. This paper aims to investigate the cost of the energy logistics for the three types of wireless charging networks: stationary wireless charging (SWC), quasi-dynamic wireless charging (QWC), and dynamic wireless charging (DWC), deployed at stops and size of battery capacity for electric buses, using OLEV technology for a bus service transit in the borough of Manhattan (MN) in New York City (NYC).

Keywords: electric buses; wireless charging; dynamic wireless charging electric vehicle; New York City (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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