Impact of an E-Highway on the Required Battery Capacities and Charging Infrastructure for Cargo Transport with E-Trucks on the Basis of a Real Use Case

With the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the logistics sector is increasingly coming into focus. While increasing electrification is taking place in the road transport sector, the numbers in heavy-goods transport have so far been vanishingly small. Payload limitations, high investment cos...

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Published in:Energies (Basel) 2022-10, Vol.15 (19), p.7102
Main Authors: Netzer, Lukas, Wöss, David, Märzinger, Thomas, Müller, Werner, Pröll, Tobias
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Air pollution
Air quality management
Batteries
battery
Battery chargers
Charging
Cost control
e-highway
e-trucks
Electrification
Electrode potentials
Emissions
Emissions control
Energy consumption
Freeways
Greenhouse effect
Greenhouse gases
Highways
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Logistics
Logistics services
Motor vehicle fleets
Road transportation
Roads & highways
Shipment of goods
sustainable logistics
Toll roads
Traffic
transport
Trucks
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Summary:With the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the logistics sector is increasingly coming into focus. While increasing electrification is taking place in the road transport sector, the numbers in heavy-goods transport have so far been vanishingly small. Payload limitations, high investment costs, and charging times make it difficult for logistics companies to think about a conversion. An e-highway on Austria’s highways could provide an approach to counter these problems. Based on route data of an entire truck fleet in the construction logistics sector and by creating a model with Openrouteservice and MATLAB, calculations are carried out to show the savings potential of required battery capacities and charging infrastructure. The results show a high potential for reducing battery capacities and the required charging infrastructure at the locations approached. The results show high reduction potential, keeping the average required capacities in all scenarios below 350 kWh. Having a higher-powered e-highway of 150 kW nets slightly better results, but a major effect can still be achieved with a power of 60 kW. The cost reduction potential related to batteries and charging stations is up to 65% for individual scenarios. Thus, the result of this work primarily aims at presenting the advantages of a potential e-highway for logistics companies operating on Austria’s roads but can also be considered from the regulatory side when it comes to incentivizing sustainable logistics solutions from the political side.
ISSN:1996-1073
1996-1073
DOI:10.3390/en15197102