Do You Mind if I Plug-in My Car? How etiquette shapes PEV drivers’ vehicle charging behavior

Caperello, Nicolette; Kurani, Kenneth S; TyreeHageman, Jennifer

doi:10.1016/j.tra.2013.07.016

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“…Interviews [16] of PEV owners conducted assessed perceptions of charging etiquette at public and workplace charging locations, concluding that no common charging guidelines evolved unless a pathway of communication between users exists, which ultimately leads to inefficiency in infrastructure use. Another study [17] addresses these inefficiencies by considering occupancy rates, infrastructure costs, and parking premiums to assess the economic feasibility of deploying charging stations using an economic model.…”

Section: Operational Issues At Charging Stationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Pattern Analysis of Daily Electric Vehicle Charging Profiles: Operational Efficiency and Environmental Impacts

Desai

Chen

Armington

2018

Journal of Advanced Transportation

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Plug-in Electric Vehicles (PEVs) are considered one solution to reducing GHG emissions from private transport. Additionally, PEV adopters often have free access to public charging facilities. Through a pattern analysis, this study identifies five distinct clusters of daily PEV charging profiles observed at the public charging stations. Empirically observed patterns indicate a significant amount of operational inefficiency, where 54% of the total parking duration PEVs do not consume electricity, preventing other users from charging. This study identifies the opportunity cost in terms of GHG emissions savings if gasoline vehicles are replaced with potential PEV adopters. The time spent in parking without charging by current PEV users can be used by these potential PEV users to charge their PEVs and replace the use of gasoline. The results suggest that reducing inefficient station use leads to significant reductions in emissions. Overall, there is significant variability in outcomes depending on the specific cluster membership.

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Section: Operational Issues At Charging Stationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Pattern Analysis of Daily Electric Vehicle Charging Profiles: Operational Efficiency and Environmental Impacts

Desai

Chen

Armington

2018

Journal of Advanced Transportation

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“…Beyond issues related to charger availability are several other post-purchase consumer behavior issues related to charging that can potentially pose a barrier to consumer satisfaction and future PEV use and purchase. The cost to charge, perceptions of charging etiquette, and network effects of charging have all been topics of study in the literature (Nicolette Caperello, Kurani, & TyreeHageman, 2013b;He, et al, 2014;Wua, Aviquzzaman, & Lin, 2015). These topics are representative of two broader categories of issues that can prompt negative emotions associated with public charging: (1) issues related to the tangible attributes of charger installations; and (2) issues related to driver behavior and public charging.…”

Section: Charging Behaviormentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Barriers related to driver behavior and public charging can include: non-PEV vehicles occupying charger parking spots, PEVs occupying charger parking spots when they are not actively charging, and general uncertainty about the etiquette of away-from-home charging (e.g., uncertainty about how to interact with other PEV drivers, how long to park and charge in a public spot, how acceptable it is to unplug another driver's PEV, etc.). See, e.g., Caparello, Kurani et al (2013a) for more information.…”

Section: Charging Behaviormentioning

confidence: 99%

Consumer Behavior and the Plug-In Electric Vehicle Purchase Decision Process: A Research Synthesis

Taylor

Fujita

2018

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Executive SummaryThis report synthesizes consumer behavior research as it pertains to the plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) purchase decision process. The purpose is to clarify what is known about the vital role consumers play in the U.S. PEV market as it matures to become less policy-reliant and more representative of the U.S., both spatially and demographically. A more representative PEV market will: help OEMs recoup more of their R&D investments in PEVs; help American consumers access the economic and performance benefits of PEVs; and help the U.S. become more energy independent while improving air quality-related public health and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.This report draws heavily from the marketing literature for its organization and insights. Section 2 introduces the standard five steps of the purchase decision process used in consumer behavior research and introduces important internal and external factors that are likely to affect that decision process. Section 3 provides a review of transportation data and literature that is structured around these five purchase decision steps, namely problem recognition, search (both internal and external), alternative evaluation, purchase, and post-purchase behavior. The final section of the report, Section 4, highlights cross-cutting themes in consumer behavior research that are relevant to the maturation of the U.S. PEV market. It also provides a table that compiles a variety of research topics that would fill important knowledge gaps about the PEV purchase decision process.The report identifies several challenges on the consumer side of the PEV purchase process. These include experience gaps and the need for consumers to make high investments of time and effort in the PEV purchase decision-making process and in post-purchase use. As is true for many purchase decisions, there is potential for negative emotions to arise throughout the PEV purchase decision process and for consumers to have negative purchase consequences. The vehicle purchase context can compound some of these challenges and/or differentiate how they play out with respect to PEV purchases versus traditionally-fueled light-duty vehicle purchases. Relevant contextual elements include: time constraints for purchase; rapid technological change in both PEVs and traditionally-fueled vehicles; and competition between PEVs and traditionallyfueled vehicles that are familiar, high-quality, and prominently advertised by OEMs.Despite these challenges, the report makes clear that there is an increasing value proposition for PEV purchase for a growing group of consumers based on the economic, performance, convenience, psycho-social, and societal benefits of PEVs. To increase public awareness of this value proposition, the report emphasizes the importance of emotional appeals and highlights the possible role of PEV owners in shaping these appeals.iii

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“…This means heavy and/or expensive batteries, short range compared to fossil-fuel cars, and having to wait several hours at the end of the range for a "refill". For home-charging, special infrastructure may have to be installed at home, and the power grid must be able to support it; and away-from-home charging can be also socially problematic [19]. One possible solution for the charging problem, quick-swappable batteries 4 , did not catch on either.…”

Section: The Undesirable Consequences Of Urban Gridlock and Their Usumentioning

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ICVS: A Paradigm to Address Urban Traffic Gridlock and Associated Problems

Semiz

2016

IEEE Intell. Transport. Syst. Mag.

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For the metropolitan setting, we propose the introduction of (mostly) one-seater electric vehicles and a sparse road network dedicated to them. These "intelligent commuter vehicles" (ICVs) would be bimodal: human-driven on standard roads, and computer-guided in the network (ICVN), which also charges and powers the vehicles. The commuter would drive to the nearest entry/exit terminal, from where the vehicle would be guided to the terminal closest to the destination, the trip being completed by human driving. The sparsity of the network, combined with the vehicles' narrowness and lightness means that it can be constructed relatively painlessly.Network-charging both removes the need of a separate urban charging infrastructure and leads to short range-requirement for the vehicles, hence existing, cheap lead-acid batteries can be used; the controlled environment of the network makes the guiding of the vehicles realizable with existing technology. Hence the paradigm does not need any technological breakthroughs; is backward-compatible, since existing roads are still utilized, and a partlycompleted network can be used; and forward-compatible, since the vehicles can easily be converted to be fully self-driving, if and when we are technologically and socially ready. We believe that these features make the paradigm the most reasonable solution to the metropolitan gridlock problem.

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Do You Mind if I Plug-in My Car? How etiquette shapes PEV drivers’ vehicle charging behavior

Cited by 30 publications

References 12 publications

A Pattern Analysis of Daily Electric Vehicle Charging Profiles: Operational Efficiency and Environmental Impacts

A Pattern Analysis of Daily Electric Vehicle Charging Profiles: Operational Efficiency and Environmental Impacts

Consumer Behavior and the Plug-In Electric Vehicle Purchase Decision Process: A Research Synthesis

ICVS: A Paradigm to Address Urban Traffic Gridlock and Associated Problems

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