Study of Introducing PV & E-bus System to Bus Line

Abstract

In order to prevent global warming, many technologies for CO₂ reduction have been developed. As a solution, photovoltaic (PV) & electric vehicle (EV) integrated system which can reduce CO₂ emissions with high economic efficiency has been proposed. In this paper, the authors have studied the effect of introducing the integrated system to a city bus line (between Gifu University Hospital and JR Gifu Station) based on the energy balances of the entire system including power consumption by air conditioning and traveling of the bus. As a result, CO₂ emissions can be reduced more than 90% and 80% of the whole energy consumption can be replaced by PV power.