Impacts of inductive charging on 24h on-demand operation of shared autonomous electric vehicle fleets

Abstract – Shared autonomous electric vehicles (SAEVs) can play a key role in decarbonizing the transport sector,
not only by providing a resource and cost efficient solution to fulfil our mobility needs, but also by providing a flexible load to the grid and local generation of renewable energies. To leverage this potential, fleet operation and charging strategies need to react to variable signals and charging stations need to be
fully automatic, as possible with inductive charging. In this work, we demonstrate a SAEV fleet simulation framework, containing modules for vehicle modeling, driving and charging simulation and applying charging strategies. In a real world based case study, we demonstrate the potentials of the approach. The results show an increase to 77 % autonomy rate with local PV using flexible PV oriented charging,
compared to 0 % with depot charging, reducing the carbon emissions by 78 %. Cost oriented charging
reduced costs by 25 %.

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