Integrated planning of electric vehicles routing and charging stations location considering transportation networks and power distribution systems

Abstract

Electric Vehicles (EVs) represent a significant option that contributes to improve the mobility and reduce the pollution, leaving a future expectation in the merchandise transportation sector, which has been demonstrated with pilot projects of companies operating EVs for products delivering. In this work a new approach of EVs for merchandise transportation considering the location of Electric Vehicle Charging Stations (EVCSs) and the impact on the Power Distribution System (PDS) is addressed. This integrated planning is formulated through a mixed integer nonlinear mathematical model. Test systems of different sizes are designed to evaluate the model performance, considering the transportation network and PDS. The results show a trade-off between EVs routing, PDS energy losses and EVCSs location.