Empirical Evaluation of the Performance of Electric Vehicles for Taxi Operation
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Neves, Joao; Loureiro, Ana; d'Orey, Pedro M.; Migueis, Vera; Costa, Alvaro; Ferreira, Michel
- Source
- 2022 IEEE 95th Vehicular Technology Conference: (VTC2022-Spring) Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2022-Spring), 2022 IEEE 95th. :1-6 Jun, 2022
- Subject
- Aerospace
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Engineering Profession
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Photonics and Electrooptics
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Signal Processing and Analysis
Transportation
Costs
Urban areas
Europe
Switches
Charging stations
Propulsion
Electric vehicles
Taxi mobility
Energy consumption
Empirical data
Charging Infrastructure
- Language
- ISSN
- 2577-2465
Electric mobility with all of its advantages has gained momentum during the last decade with increasing utilization by many sectors of the society. However, professional fleets’ operators (e.g. taxis) are still conservative in switching to this new mobility paradigm in many parts of the world. In this paper, we empirically evaluate whether electric vehicles together with conventional charging stations could replace current internal combustion engine vehicles for taxi mobility and study the implications for the taxi business. To perform this study, we resort to a detailed mobility dataset of a taxi fleet collected in a mid-sized European city. The results provide a first indication that such transition towards electric mobility is feasible for the vast majority of the vehicles of the fleet and that simple AC chargers at taxi stands could suffice to provide the necessary range autonomy.