Prototype of Urban-Scale Battery Usage Simulator to Examine Promotion of Electric Vehicles

Abstract

In recent years, electric vehicle has been expected to spread, but due to various factors such as limitations on the vehicle side caused by technical specifications of batteries and lack of charging infrastructure, the spread of electric vehicle in society has not progressed. Therefore, this study aims to examine the possibility of electric vehicle diffusion methods that take both vehicle and infrastructure into account by focusing on battery usage. In this presentation, we report on a development of an urban scale battery usage simulator that uses battery installation and replacement methods, technical specifications such as the type and size of electric vehicle vehicles, and user behavior such as vehicle and charging behavior as variables.