LOAD LEVELING WITH ELECTRIC VEHICLES IN THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT
Forecasts of vehicle populations and degree of electrification are made. Also, electrical load curves, for the two seasons of summer and winter are forecast upon which vehicles recharge is superimposed. It is shown that unless very significant changes in mass transit occur, the personal automobile will dominate any load-leveling effect a city might experience, by 1990, this paper forecasts 52 percent conversion of personal cars to electric propulsion. The study shows the possibility of increasing the daily load factor or low/high power ratio by 10-20 percentage points which could cause a reduction in the production cost of electricity since the most efficient units are used. However, this does not require the addition of new generation capacity since the need comes during off-peak hours and would not seriously exceed, if at all, daytime peaks, at least through 1990.
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Supplemental Notes:
- Proceedings of the 11th Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, September 12-17, 1976.
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Corporate Authors:
Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)
400 Commonwealth Drive
Warrendale, PA United States 15096 -
Authors:
- Jerabek, E C
- Conference:
- Publication Date: 1976-9
Media Info
- Features: References;
- Pagination: p. 382-389
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Automobiles; Costs; Electric vehicles; Energy; Forecasting; Loads; Peak periods; Personal rapid transit; Railroad electrification; Urban areas
- Old TRIS Terms: Personal transit; Recharge
- Subject Areas: Energy; Finance; Highways; Public Transportation; Railroads; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00153205
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Engineering Index
- Report/Paper Numbers: SAE 769065
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Jul 19 1982 12:00AM