A Charging Planning Method for Shared Electric Vehicles with the Collaboration of Mobile and Fixed Facilities

Qingyu Luo, Zhihao Ye and Hongfei Jia ()
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Qingyu Luo: Transportation College, Jilin University, Changchun 130022, China
Zhihao Ye: Transportation College, Jilin University, Changchun 130022, China
Hongfei Jia: Transportation College, Jilin University, Changchun 130022, China

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 22, 1-16

Abstract: Faced with the charging difficulties of free-floating shared electric vehicles and the high cost of single-demand mobile charging, this paper proposes a cooperative charging planning method based on the complementary advantages of fixed charging stations and mobile charging vehicles, which can charge shared electric vehicles more efficiently and reduce the charging cost at the same time. A bi-level programming model for fixed and mobile cooperative charging is constructed. The upper level of the model is the system charging total cost minimization model, which searches for the optimal charging scheme and number of mobile charging vehicles. The lower level model is a fixed and mobile cooperative charging path planning model, which calculates the optimal routes for the mobile charging vehicles and the shared electric vehicles that need to be transferred to the fixed charging station. The example results show that the cost of the proposed fixed-mobile cooperative charging scheme is reduced by 12.6% when compared to the fixed-only charging scheme, and by 14.9% when compared to the mobile-only charging scheme.

Keywords: shared electric vehicle; mobile charging vehicle; fixed charging station; cooperative charging (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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