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Technology Improvement Pathways to Cost-effective Vehicle Electrification
Technical Paper
2010-01-0824
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
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Electrifying transportation can reduce or eliminate dependence on foreign fuels, emission of green house gases, and emission of pollutants. One challenge is finding a pathway for vehicles that gains wide market acceptance to achieve a meaningful benefit. This paper evaluates several approaches aimed at making plug-in electric vehicles (EV) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) cost-effective including opportunity charging, replacing the battery over the vehicle life, improving battery life, reducing battery cost, and providing electric power directly to the vehicle during a portion of its travel. Many combinations of PHEV electric range and battery power are included. For each case, the model accounts for battery cycle life and the national distribution of driving distances to size the battery optimally. Using the current estimates of battery life and cost, only the dynamically plugged-in pathway was cost-effective to the consumer. Significant improvements in battery life and battery cost also made PHEVs more cost-effective than today's hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) and conventional internal combustion engine vehicles (CVs).
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Brooker, A., Thornton, M., and Rugh, J., "Technology Improvement Pathways to Cost-effective Vehicle Electrification," SAE Technical Paper 2010-01-0824, 2010, https://doi.org/10.4271/2010-01-0824.Also In
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