Flexibility Potential of Smart Charging Electric Trucks and Buses

Flexibility Potential of Smart Charging Electric Trucks and Buses

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In addition to passenger vehicles, battery-electric trucks and buses could offer substantial flexibility to the energy system.Using a Bass diffusion model, we extrapolated the unidirectional charging needs and availability of trucks in five of eleven typical applications, as here well as city buses, for Germany until 2040.Combined, these lycogel heavy-duty vehicles could provide up to 23 GW of down-regulating flexibility potential (i.

e., in case of excess power supply) in 2040.The resulting revenues could contribute to reducing electricity costs for depot operators.

These results illustrate the need to provide easy and automated market access to heavy-duty vehicle fleets.