Suitability of commercial transport for a shift to electric mobility with Denmark and Germany as use cases

Christensen, Linda; Klauenberg, Jens; Kveiborg, Ole; Rudolph, C.

doi:10.1016/j.retrec.2017.08.004

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“…Christensen et al [175] 2017 10 P Commercial sectors suitable for a shift to electric mobility: construction, human health, and other service sectors.…”

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The Adoption of Green Vehicles in Last Mile Logistics: A Systematic Review

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Widespread adoption of green vehicles in urban logistics may contribute to the alleviation of problems such as environmental pollution, global warming, and oil dependency. However, the current adoption of green vehicles in the last mile logistics is relatively low despite many actions taken by public authorities to overcome the negative externalities of distributing goods in cities. This paper presents a comprehensive literature review on studies investigating the adoption of green vehicles in urban freight transportation, paying specific attention to e-commerce. To shed light on the adoption of green vehicles in city logistics, the paper conducts a systematic review of the empirical literature on the topic. The 159 articles reviewed were classified into the following: (a) Optimization and scheduling (67 papers); (b) policy (55 papers); (c) sustainability (37 papers). Among the 159 articles, a further selection of 17 papers dealing with e-commerce, i.e., studies that highlight the most relevant aspects related to the integration of green vehicles in e-commerce urban logistics, was performed. Our findings indicate that green vehicles are competitive in urban deliveries characterized by frequent stop-and-go movements and low consolidation levels while incentives are still necessary for their adoption. The use of autonomous vehicles results the most promising and challenging solution for last-mile logistics.

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“…Christensen et al [175] 2017 10 P Commercial sectors suitable for a shift to electric mobility: construction, human health, and other service sectors.…”

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The Adoption of Green Vehicles in Last Mile Logistics: A Systematic Review

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“…If we take as a reference the Renault Master L1H2 diesel-powered has 1600 kg of effective load in contrast to 1100 kg of ZE version with the same 9 m 3 of useful volume. This issue cannot be overcome unless the maximum allowed gross vehicle m would be 4250 kg [12]. Nevertheless, the payload in vans for urban delivery activities might be a non-issue from a utility point of view [36,54], but it has effects in the energy consumption, vehicle dynamics and powertrain components sizing.…”

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Opportunities and Barriers of Hydrogen–Electric Hybrid Powertrain Vans: A Systematic Literature Review

2020

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The environmental impact of the road transport sector, together with urban freight transport growth, has a notable repercussions in global warming, health and economy. The need to reduce emissions caused by fossil fuel dependence and to foster the use of renewable energy sources has driven the development of zero-emissions powertrains. These clean transportation technologies are not only necessary to move people but to transport the increasing demand for goods and services that is currently taking place in the larger cities. Full electric battery-powered vans seem to be the best-placed solution to the problem. However, despite the progress in driving range and recharge options, those and other market barriers remain unsolved and the current market share of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) is not significant. Based on the development of hydrogen fuel cell stacks, this work explains an emerging powertrain architecture concept for N1 class type vans, that combines a battery-electric configuration with a fuel cell stack powered by hydrogen that works as a range extender (FC-EREV). A literature review is conducted, with the aim to shed light on the possibilities of this hybrid light-duty commercial van for metropolitan delivery tasks, providing insights into the key factors and issues for sizing the powertrain components and fuel management strategies to meet metropolitan freight fleet needs.

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“…Electric Vehicles (EVs) are a pollution free, efficient transportation system as compared to conventional vehicles. Over the past years, because of the improvements in battery technology and the rise in oil prices, the EVs are found to be economically advantageous in short-distance commuting [11]. The number of EVs is increasing steadily, in Germany a vast rise of the number from EVs was registered [12].…”

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“…Many countries provide a lot of subsidies and privileges to EV owners as e.g. Germany, where EVs are exempted from annual vehicle tax for 5 years [11]. In the European market, Norway has the largest share of EVs where 29% of the vehicles are EVs [13].…”

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Design and simulation of a control algorithm for peak-load shaving using vehicle to grid technology

Castellanos¹,

Rajan

Rohde³

et al. 2019

SN Appl. Sci.

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The continuous growth of renewable energy sources and combined heat-power generation plants in public infrastructures allow them a certain degree of independence from the public power grid. Nevertheless, during the day, the power demand fluctuates, creating peak loads that cannot be fulfilled by the generated power and must be covered by the public power grid. Peak loads could be diminished by saving energy produced during low power demand periods and returning it during the high demand periods. The use of electric vehicles is expected to keep increasing in the next years and the use of vehicle-to-grid technology allows electric and hybrid cars to return stored energy to the power grid. An algorithm to evaluate the vehicle-to-grid technology as a solution for peak reduction, also called peak shaving, for public infrastructure was developed. The purpose of the algorithm is to predict the optimal charging and discharging schedule of the battery from electric vehicles in a parking space so that the peak load demands are met without sacrificing the driving demands of the electric vehicle (EV) users. This takes into consideration factors like the state of charge of the batteries and the mobility needs of the vehicle user. The algorithm takes the driving demands and mobility needs as constraints, and schedules the charging and discharging of the EVs during their stay in a parking place in order to reduce the peak load demands by supplying stored electrical power from EV batteries back to the grid. In order to validate the algorithm, three test case scenarios representing different parking patterns were generated using random and statistical distributed parameters. It is concluded that vehicle-to-grid technology can be used to reduce peak demands, where the number of EVs and their stay hours in a parking place represent the most critical parameters for the effectivity of the peak reduction. This implies that in the future, public infrastructure could profit better from renewable energy sources by adding loading stations for EVs that are vehicle-to-grid capable.

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Suitability of commercial transport for a shift to electric mobility with Denmark and Germany as use cases

Cited by 32 publications

References 19 publications

The Adoption of Green Vehicles in Last Mile Logistics: A Systematic Review

The Adoption of Green Vehicles in Last Mile Logistics: A Systematic Review

Opportunities and Barriers of Hydrogen–Electric Hybrid Powertrain Vans: A Systematic Literature Review

Design and simulation of a control algorithm for peak-load shaving using vehicle to grid technology

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