Scaling up dynamic charging infrastructure: Significant battery cost savings

Large-scale electrification of heavy-duty road freight faces challenges including scarcity of charging infrastructure and high battery costs. Dynamic charging could help overcome these challenges by enabling trucks to charge while driving. Important additional benefits for carriers related to lower required sizes and longer lifetimes of...

Dynamic Wireless Charging of Electric Vehicles

As a more convenient alternative to conductive charging technology, wireless charging is seen as a key technology drive for transportation electrification. In electric vehicle (EV) battery charging applications, wireless power is transferred through a magnetic link, so it is referred to as inductive power transfer (IPT). One advantage of IPT...

Driving Toward Sustainability: Large-Scale Electric Road Systems for Road Freight - an optimization model for ERS Network Planning

As societies worldwide grapple with the urgent need to mitigate carbon emissions, one domain where substantial strides can be made is heavy-duty road freight transport. Electrification has emerged as a practical and technologically mature solution to address this challenge. However, the widespread adoption of electrification in this sector is...

The effect of IMC bus charging behavior on the trolleygrid

We are in the middle of a transition to zero-emission mobility. The European Union has set high targets for zero-emission bus sales. Many European local governments and public-transit operators are looking to replace their GHG-emitting diesel/gas bus fleets with clean alternatives. One such alternative is In Motion Charging (IMC) technology for...

Designing the green energy highway with on-road contactless power transfer.

This thesis presents the implementation of Inductive Power Transfer on the A12 in the Netherlands. On-road inductive power transfer allows electric vehicles to charge while driving. This technology can realize higher driving ranges of vehicles, but also allows decreasing the battery size what would result in a higher performance of the vehicle....