Strategies to Increase the Profitability of Electric Vehicles in Urban Freight Transport

Taefi, Tessa T.; Kreutzfeldt, Jochen; Held, Tobias; Fink, Andréas

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-13194-8_20

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“…The weight and volume of goods, operating range, payload, utilization level, purchase cost, charging infrastructure, battery life, energy consumption, available routes, average speed, and logistics are among the factors that affect the profitability of battery electric heavy vehicles, according to [2,3,5,11,20,23,[26][27][28][29][30][31][32]. TCO provides a good means of estimating profitability and is used for comparative analysis of the competitive technologies [3,5,20,23,[26][27][28][29][33][34][35][36][37][38][39]. Literature suggests that vehicle customization based on the use case helps profitability of the battery electric heavy vehicles.…”

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“…Environmental, technical, logistic, and financial factors as well as energy supply and infrastructure have especially a major impact on electromobility, as reported by [2][3][4]. As concluded by [5], profitability is the primary reason for major transportation companies to consider the switch-over to electrification. They suggest measures to increase profitability by pointing out that further research is needed to investigate development of a systematic approach.…”

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Transportation-Mission-Based Optimization of Heterogeneous Heavy-Vehicle Fleet Including Electrified Propulsion

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Commercial-vehicle manufacturers design vehicles to operate over a wide range of transportation tasks and driving cycles. However, certain possibilities of reducing emissions, manufacturing and operational costs from end vehicles are neglected if the target range of transportation tasks is narrow and known in advance, especially in case of electrified propulsion. Apart from real-time energy optimization, vehicle hardware can be meticulously tailored to best fit a known transportation task. As proposed in this study, a heterogeneous fleet of heavy-vehicles can be designed in a more cost- and energy-efficient manner, if the coupling between vehicle hardware, transportation mission, and infrastructure is considered during initial conceptual-design stages. To this end, a rather large optimization problem was defined and solved to minimize the total cost of fleet ownership in an integrated manner for a real-world case study. In the said case-study, design variables of optimization problem included mission, recharging infrastructure, loading–unloading scheme, number of vehicles of each type, number of trips, vehicle-loading capacity, selection between conventional, fully electric, and hybrid powertrains, size of internal-combustion engines and electric motors, number of axles being powered, and type and size of battery packs. This study demonstrated that by means of integrated fleet customization, battery-electric heavy-vehicles could strongly compete against their conventional combustion-powered counterparts. The primary focus has been put on optimizing vehicle propulsion, transport mission, infrastructure and fleet size rather than routing.

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Transportation-Mission-Based Optimization of Heterogeneous Heavy-Vehicle Fleet Including Electrified Propulsion

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“…The urban freight policies presented in Block 5 were selected from the following literature: implementation of an urban mobility plan [12], loading/unloading areas [41,42], mini-hubs in urban areas [43][44][45][46], electrical vehicles [47][48][49][50], cargo bikes [51][52][53][54], truck lanes [55], off-peak deliveries [56][57][58], freight delivery restriction [59,60], congestion charge [61], pick-up points or lockers [62,63], and collaborative delivery [36,64].…”

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Transport Service Provider Perception of Barriers and Urban Freight Policies in Brazil

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The aim of this paper is to analyze the perceptions of the transport service providers on the barriers in urban freight transport and the restrictions imposed on freight vehicles, identifying which urban freight transport policies can improve this activity in Brazil. Principal component analysis allowed us to identify which are barriers in urban cargo transport and the restrictions imposed on freight vehicles. In addition, we evaluated freight policies that can improve the activity using probabilistic preference. We obtained the database from a web-based survey of transport service providers in Brazil. The results indicate that the urban freight vehicle restriction is related to congestion and availability of loading and unloading areas. The freight vehicle restriction is a result of the lack of information and data. The theft of cargo significantly impacts urban freight transport. Transport service provider company perceptions indicate an urban mobility plan as the most-required freight policy to improve freight mobility. To reduce the barriers to urban freight planning, an understanding of the problem involving the stakeholders is needed. To do so, the challenge is to change the culture in the transportation planning process by integrating various actors to create an urban logistics plan that generates opportunities for the city.

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“…For example, Maasman displays the usage of renewable energies in smart factories with electric vehicle fleets [18]. Valero-Bover et al [19] analyzing the performance of and electric vehicle fleet for the commercial purpose, and Taefi et al [20] are displaying a framework to enhance the productivity of electric commercial vehicles. None of them is building a holistic simulation model which evaluates the cost and emission benefits by When talking about cost and emission benefits, Samweber et al [21] survey the question, whether and to what extend the self-consumption of self-produced energy can be increased using an electric vehicle and/or a stationary battery system.…”

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Approach for the development of a method for the integration of battery electric vehicles in commercial companies, including intelligent management systems

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Lienkamp

2016

Automot. Engine Technol.

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Current analyses of electric mobility reveal that the electrification of the powertrain of vehicles will change the entire automotive value chain. This paper presents the approach for the development of a method for the evaluation of an economically and ecologically rewarding integration of electric vehicles in commercial companies. First, this method focuses on the analysis of the driving behavior of a commercial vehicle fleet and the energy flow (consumption and production) in a company. Second, it is the goal to evaluate the potential of integrating battery electric vehicles in a commercial company using a new developed fleet-management system in combination with an energy-and chargingmanagement system. The potential of integration will be depicted by the number of battery electric vehicles that can be integrated, the reduction of the total costs of ownership, and the reduction of the produced CO 2 emissions.

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Strategies to Increase the Profitability of Electric Vehicles in Urban Freight Transport

Cited by 17 publications

References 10 publications

Transportation-Mission-Based Optimization of Heterogeneous Heavy-Vehicle Fleet Including Electrified Propulsion

Transportation-Mission-Based Optimization of Heterogeneous Heavy-Vehicle Fleet Including Electrified Propulsion

Transport Service Provider Perception of Barriers and Urban Freight Policies in Brazil

Approach for the development of a method for the integration of battery electric vehicles in commercial companies, including intelligent management systems

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