Electric vehicle battery charging behaviour: findings from a driver survey

This study explores drivers’ charging preferences in the Western Australia Electric Vehicle trial. Drivers in this trial have experience of planning trips using plug in electric vehicles (EV). There are trade-offs between charging options in terms of cost and time. In this study each driver was given a set of four stated choice experiments; they picked their best and worst options for charging EV from each experiment. Labelled experiments contained mainly three choices: work, home and public with different values of charging cost, duration, and time of day. Drivers were given assumptions before doing the experiments, for example: that they are planning a trip for their next working day. The findings of this study give several insights into drivers’ charging behaviour: drivers preferred to charge EV at home or work rather than at a public charging station; drivers having solar panels at home prefer to charge EV at home; people having travel commitments involving other family members do not like to charge EV at home but generally prefer to use a public charging station. Members of the Australian Electric Vehicle Association, one of the partners in the WA EV trial, preferred to charge at home. Drivers were in general sensitive to cost and showed a strong preference for low cost EV charging.

• Record URL:
  • http://www.atrf.info/papers/2013/index.aspx
• Authors:
  • Jabeen, F
  • Olaru, D
  • Smith, B
  • Braunl, T
  • Speidel, S
• Conference:
  • Australasian Transport Research Forum (ATRF), 36th, 2013, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
• Publication Date: 2013-10

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 15p
• Monograph Title: Transport and the new world city: 36th Australasian Transport Research Forum (ATRF), October 2nd-4th 2013, Brisbane

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Behavior; Drivers; Electric batteries; Electric vehicle charging; Electric vehicles; Environment; Residential location; Stated preferences
• Geographic Terms: Australia
• ATRI Terms: Battery; Driver behaviour; Electric vehicle; Environment; Place of residence; Stated preference; Vehicle recharging
• ITRD Terms: 1315: Battery
• Subject Areas: Environment; I15: Environment; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01504112
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Files: ITRD, ATRI
• Created Date: Jan 23 2014 9:53AM