Optimal Quick Charging Station Placement for Electric Vehicles

Abstract:

Environmental concerns, dependency on imported petroleum and lower cost alternative to gasoline always motivated policymakers worldwide to introduce electric vehicles in road transport system as a solution of those problems. The key issue in this system is recharging the electric vehicle batteries before they are exhausted. Thus, the charging station should be carefully located to make sure the vehicle users can access the charging station within its driving range. This paper therefore proposes a multi-objective optimization method for optimal placement of quick charging station. It intends to minimize the integrated cost of grid energy loss and travelling of vehicle to quick charging station. Due to contrary objectives, weighted sum method is assigned to generate reference Pareto optimal front and optimized the overture by genetic algorithm. The results show that the proposed method can find the optimal solution of quick charging station placement that can benefit electric vehicle users and power grid.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 785)
• Pages: 697-701
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.785.697
• Online since: August 2015
• Authors: Md. Mainul Islam*, Hussein Shareef, Azah Mohamed
• Keywords: Electric, Genetic, Optimal, Pareto, Placement, Quick, Station, Vehicle

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