Economic Viability and Environmental Impact of In-Motion Wireless Power Transfer

摘要: In-motion charging of electric vehicles (EVs) using wireless power transfer (WPT) represents an alternative to both traditional internal combustion engine (ICE) transportation and long-range EVs. This paper focuses on understanding the economics, environmental impact, infrastructure rollout in-motion WPT applied U.S. fleet. a novel, large-scale integration numerous research methodologies previously presented by our group into comprehensive study thoroughly address potential implementation scenarios geographically diverse data sets, validated vehicle models, real-world drive cycles, variable adoption rates, deployment rates. By conventional infrastructure, proposed roadway architectures satisfy 97.7% sampled 24-h 22.4% increase over baseline short-range EV without charging. Economic results show national return investment but economic viability is dramatically impacted upfront capital costs technology adoption. An impact assessment shows that total greenhouse gas emissions from light-duty Class 8 trucks would be reduced 29.3 trillion kg CO2-eq. (30.6%) when compared business as usual scenario (i.e., were current overall trends continue) for first 50 years deployment. These demonstrate presents benefits ICE