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Overcoming range limits

Nature Energy volume 6, pages 17–18 (2021)Cite this article

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Vehicle electrification is essential for decarbonizing road transport but there are challenges around electric vehicle adoption and infrastructure planning. By analysing real-world travel data, a new study explores the potential for different charging and supplemental vehicle strategies to allow electric vehicles to meet current driver needs.

First, the researchers used real-world trip data from Seattle and across the USA to examine driving patterns and vehicle trip energy consumption. By modelling this trip energy consumption in BEVs, they report a non-trivial number of days where drivers require more driving range than what common BEV models such as the Nissan Leaf or Tesla Model S can deliver, even on a full charge. This shortfall presents a real deterrent for drivers to consider BEVs without enhanced charging infrastructure to allow for mid-day recharging or access to alternate, longer range vehicles on such high-energy days.

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  1. Engineering Systems and Design, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore, Singapore

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Cheah, L. Overcoming range limits. Nat Energy 6, 17–18 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-020-00766-6

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