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Transportation Modeling and Data Needs For Fast Charging Electric Vehicles
Transportation Modeling and Data Needs For Fast Charging Electric Vehicles
Vehicles
Dylan Dean Thomas Ortmeyer Lei Wu
ECE Department Life Fellow, IEEE Senior Member, IEEE
Clarkson University ECE Department ECE Department
Potsdam, NY 13699 USA Clarkson University Clarkson University
deand@clarkson.edu Potsdam, NY 13699 USA Potsdam, NY 13699 USA
ortmeyer@clarkson.edu lwu@clarkson.edu
Abstract—Electric Vehicle (EV) technology is advancing distribution system. The best way to identify the impact of
rapidly. Battery storage technology is a prime contributor to EVs on the distribution system is to utilize an accurate
vehicle range increases, charging time reductions, and cost transportation model to determine the most likely charging
reductions. These technology improvements are predicted to
times and methods of charging for EVs. This strategy is not
rapidly change the popularity and usage of EVs. These advances
will cause the need for comprehensive models of EV usage and new, it has been the basis of numerous papers. In fact, most
charging, and the resulting requirements on the electric power papers that analyze the impacts of EV charging on a
system. This paper discusses transportation models for this new distribution system primarily focus on Level 1 and Level 2
generation of EVs, and predicts the characteristics of charging [1, 2, 3, 4]. Some briefly cover impacts of Level 3
commercial rapid (Level 3) charging stations at a point where but not in any particular depth [1].
these stations would become commercially viable. The paper also
Some research papers model the activity of EVs
discusses uncertainties in the modeling and data needs for the
development of improved models. unrealistically, randomly distributing the charging behavior of
a population of EVs throughout the course of the day without
Index Terms-- Electric vehicles, rapid charging, taking into account documented travel tendencies. The
transportation models. resulting model would prove unreliable if it were used for
power system planning activities. A common practice to
I. INTRODUCTION develop a transportation model is to use data from the
Electric vehicle (EV) technology is rapidly developing. National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) in conjunction
The increases in vehicle range and reductions in charging with probability functions to determine the likely charging
time and vehicles costs are forecast to result in increasing times for EVs [3, 5, 6]. Some studies utilize empirical
numbers of EVs in the near future. EVs present unique localized travel data to serve as a basis for their transportation
challenges to the power system, and it is important to know models [7, 8, 9]. This method for creating a transportation
future EV charging characteristics in order to promote the model is logical and may well be the best method for
integration of these new loads on the grid. accurately predicting the most likely arrival and departure
This paper presents an EV transportation model based on times for vehicles in addition to likely daily travel distances.
data from the National Household Travel Survey. The paper The travel distances are useful for developing an accurate
predicts the need for commercial Level 3 (quick) vehicle representation of state of charge (SOC) upon arrival to a
charging stations in a representative suburban area at the charging unit. An accurate depiction of SOC for a population
point when there are sufficient EVs to make these stations of vehicles is pivotal for accurately modeling the load from a
commercially viable. The paper includes two case studies. charging event. Some models take into account the likelihood
The first predicts the electric power requirements of a of EVs departing more than once per day and potentially
commercial Level 3 charging station. The second case study charging more than once per day using various charging
predicts the split between Level 2 and Level 3 charging that methods over the course of a day, be it Level 1, 2, or 3 [1, 6].
will take place for a projected suburban population of EVs. Some models only focus on the impacts from Level 1 and
The paper also discusses uncertainties in the transportation Level 2 charging [10]
and charging models, and identifies areas where improved Models must also be developed for the EVs and their
data is needed. charging systems. Some papers choose arbitrary values for
battery capacity and vehicle range in their analyses [3, 5, 7].
II. BACKGROUND A more accurate model can be developed by using readily
available data on current EVs like the Nissan Leaf or Chevy
There has been much work done to determine the best
Volt [1, 9, 10]. The chargers used and their associated
method by which to model the future tendencies of EVs in the
specifications are a critical aspect of developing an accurate
transportation system and to quantify their impacts on the
load model. There are numerous charging specifications used
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unchanged since the 1980’s. The US temporal departure with the mean of 32.5 miles and a standard deviation of 12
distribution reflects the probability of an individual to depart miles. 32.5 miles is the mean value for daily distance traveled
on a trip through the course of a day. These trips could be by drivers in New York State according to the National
from home to work, work to grocery store, or from sporting Highway Travel Survey [8]. This distribution reflects the
event to home, etc. The temporal departure distribution was range of daily average miles per vehicle. A second
obtained from NHTS 2009 [11]. A graphical representation of distribution is used to account for the variation in miles driven
the distribution is shown in Figure 1. In addition, the survey for a specific vehicle from day to day. To account for these
data shows that on average in the United States, a given days, a second distribution is added. The mean for this
vehicle has 3.35 trips per day for a total of 32.7 vehicle miles distribution is assumed to be 90 miles with a standard
per day. deviation of 30 miles. The combination of these two
distributions yields the final distribution of daily miles driven,
as shown in Figure 2.
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decreasing exponential trend will exist for the probability of have commercial Level 3 charging stations available on
utilizing public charging station, for an individual, as SOC demand at convenient locations. This implies that there will
increases from 0 to 100%. be businesses that provide multiple Level 3 charging stations,
It is assumed that the majority personal vehicles will have similar to the present gasoline fueling stations. There will be
access to Level 1 or Level 2 chargers at their residence. sufficient charging units available at these stations to handle
However, there will be a small but significant number of EVs the demand with at most occasional congestion. As Level 3
that do not have access to charging at home. It is predicted charging will continue to take longer than refueling a gasoline
that Level 2 chargers will be the preferred method of charging vehicle, it is anticipated that these stations will either have or
when available. It is also assumed that the SOC of an will be located near services that are attractive to the EV
individual vehicle influences the driver’s decision to charge
owners while they wait.
the vehicle. This assumption is made based on the idea of
Based on observations of existing fueling stations and
“range anxiety” [13]. Range anxiety is a term created to refer
to the fear of running out of charge, which poses more knowledge of the Level 3 charging times, an initial
difficulty than running out of fuel in an internal combustion assumption in this study was the Level 3 EV charging stations
engine vehicle. When one runs out of fuel in a gas vehicle, would have a minimum capability to serve 10 EVs
refueling is as simple as refilling with gas. The prospect of simultaneously.
recharging an EV on the roadside is a bit more daunting. In approximate numbers for the base case examined in this
Therefore, the probability of a sample or a group of samples paper, there will be 14,000 EVs in the region. With each of
to utilize public charging can be assumed to be a function of these charging once per day, and 20% of charges at Level 3,
the vehicles SOC. The lower the SOC, the more likely the that would be 2800 Level 3 charges per day for the region.
individual will utilize a Level 3 public charging station, rather 8.5 charges per charging unit per day is estimated to be a
than use a Level 2 charger on returning home. reasonable value that would allow cost recovery while
minimizing congestion. This rate would lead to 33 charging
Table 2. Probability of Using Public Level 3 Charging as a stations in the region under study. This is considered to be a
Function of State of Charge. sufficient number to allow convenient access to these stations
across the region. By nature, each station will have a distinct
State of Charge (SOC) Probability of Charging
load profile for each day. A representative load profile
10-20% 1.00
20-30% 0.70 predicted for one of these stations is shown in Figure 3.
30-40% 0.40
40-50% 0.20
50-60% 0.10
60-70% 0.10
70-80% 0.05
80-100% 0
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monthly flat demand rate will be used for the charging station, travel occurs, and that all Level 2 charges occur at home at
which changes with the amount of power consumed as well as the end of the day.
time of year. Similarly, a flat energy rate is considered, which The case study predicts that for this population of 14,000
changes with the amount of energy consumed as well as time vehicles, there will be a total of 26,257 charging events per
of year. day -- 12,976 of these Level 2 charges and 3281 of these
Level 3 charges. The study results predict that 3 vehicles will
Table 3. Electricity Demand and Energy Charges for the Study do 2 Level 3 charges in the day. The Level 3 charges are just
System. over 20% of the total number of charges. The distribution of
these charges is shown in Figure 4.
Charge une-September October-May The 14,000 vehicles travel a total of 569,300 miles in the
Monthly First 5 kW $1.26/kW $0.74/kW study day. Of these, 411,145 miles or 72% are recharged
Demand Above 5kW $12.89/kW $7.49/kW with Level 2 chargers, and 158,155 miles or 28% are
First recharged with Level 3 chargers. Figure 5 shows the
$0.06489/kWh $0.050/kWh
1250kWh distribution of charge-miles versus vehicle miles per day.
1250kWh-
Energy $0.02977/kWh $0.0287/kWh
30,000kWh
Above
$0.01499/kWh $0.0139/kWh
30,000kWh
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x Extended Range EV Driving Characteristics. This paper on vehicle daily range and driver preference.
assumes that extended range EVs will be used very Finally, the paper describes the need for additional data
similarly to today’s gasoline powered vehicles. Research that is needed to improve the predictive capability of these
will be needed on these vehicles as they come on the models.
market to establish actual driving patterns.
x Day to Day Variation of Driving Range. There is VIII. ACKNOWLEDGMENT
significant data available on the range of daily average
driving range across a population, as discussed in Section This work was supported by the New York Energy Research
III.b. However, there is little data available that provides and Development Authority (NYSERDA), Project number
information on the day to day variation in range of an 39151. The authors gratefully acknowledge the contributions
individual driver (or vehicle) within that population. This of NYSERDA R&D Project Manager Greg Pedrick and his
will likely be a critical factor in the use of Level 3 chargers. colleagues on this research project.
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