TY - GEN
T1 - Optimizing energy infrastructure of autonomous electric vehicles
AU - Yaqub, Marty
AU - Rahman, Mahmud
AU - Pournorouz, Zahra
AU - Bostanci, Huseyin
AU - Ganta, Deepak
AU - Xu, Yuhao
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Recently, Autonomous Electric Vehicles (AEVs) have attracted attention to the benefits they offer such as cleaner air, energy efficiency, and traffic/ parking decongestion. Smart AEV technology is poised to be a critical enabler in achieving these benefits. Currently, there is no viable and affordable electrification infrastructure for AEVs. We have developed and present here an optimization scheme that addresses the technological and economic aspects of the energy infrastructure of AEVs. The technological aspect involves a novel approach to employ emerging technologies and integrate esthetic solar-shingles to generate electrical energy with high capacity, fast charging lithium-ion energy storage batteries placed at strategically located charging stations. The economic aspect of the scheme introduces a new evaluation of the clean energy system projected Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE). Data analytics results have been simulated to evaluate the cost-competitive viability of such infrastructure. These indicate a positive trend on a key energy economic performance measure of LCOE and predicts that ‘grid parity’ could be achieved over a 60-year life cycle. Preliminary system dynamics simulation has demonstrated a viable competitive economic advantage for the proposed infrastructure assets over a 60-year life cycle. More data will be collected and analyzed for validation and statistical significance affirmation.
AB - Recently, Autonomous Electric Vehicles (AEVs) have attracted attention to the benefits they offer such as cleaner air, energy efficiency, and traffic/ parking decongestion. Smart AEV technology is poised to be a critical enabler in achieving these benefits. Currently, there is no viable and affordable electrification infrastructure for AEVs. We have developed and present here an optimization scheme that addresses the technological and economic aspects of the energy infrastructure of AEVs. The technological aspect involves a novel approach to employ emerging technologies and integrate esthetic solar-shingles to generate electrical energy with high capacity, fast charging lithium-ion energy storage batteries placed at strategically located charging stations. The economic aspect of the scheme introduces a new evaluation of the clean energy system projected Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE). Data analytics results have been simulated to evaluate the cost-competitive viability of such infrastructure. These indicate a positive trend on a key energy economic performance measure of LCOE and predicts that ‘grid parity’ could be achieved over a 60-year life cycle. Preliminary system dynamics simulation has demonstrated a viable competitive economic advantage for the proposed infrastructure assets over a 60-year life cycle. More data will be collected and analyzed for validation and statistical significance affirmation.
KW - Autonomous electric vehicle energy infrastructure
KW - Energy storage
KW - Esthetic solar shingles
KW - Fast charging lithium ion battery
KW - System dynamics simulation
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85105607293
T3 - Proceedings of the 2020 IISE Annual Conference
SP - 209
EP - 214
BT - Proceedings of the 2020 IISE Annual Conference
A2 - Cromarty, L.
A2 - Shirwaiker, R.
A2 - Wang, P.
T2 - 2020 Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers Annual Conference and Expo, IISE 2020
Y2 - 1 November 2020 through 3 November 2020
ER -