Latvian Electric Vehicle Fast Charging Infrastructure: Results of the First Year of Operation
This article presents preliminary analysis of the Latvian national EV fast - charging network after the first year of operation. The first phase of Latvian national EV fast-charging network was launched in 2018 with 70 charging stations on the TEN-T roads and in the largest towns and cities. The art...
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| author | Rubenis Aivars Laizans Aigars Zvirbule Andra |
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| description | This article presents preliminary analysis of the Latvian national EV fast - charging network after the first year of operation. The first phase of Latvian national EV fast-charging network was launched in 2018 with 70 charging stations on the TEN-T roads and in the largest towns and cities. The article looks at the initial results, both looking at the total capacity utilization for individual charging stations, determining the hourly charging distribution; and to the utilization of the network as a whole. The results present that there is a very large dispersion of the data, most of the charging events happening in a few charging stations in and around the capital of Latvia. However, there have been charging events in all charging stations, even in the most remote ones. Even more skewed distribution was observed analyzing the charging habits of the EV users, with 10 % of users accounting for more than half of the charging events. This should be taken into account when considering applying the results for the future, expecting larger number of electric vehicles in Latvia. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a043da54fd5646c19663c13d0a5a89a82022-12-21T22:00:56ZengSciendoEnvironmental and Climate Technologies2255-88372019-11-0123292110.2478/rtuect-2019-0051rtuect-2019-0051Latvian Electric Vehicle Fast Charging Infrastructure: Results of the First Year of OperationRubenis Aivars0Laizans Aigars1Zvirbule Andra2Ivory Group, Skolas iela 15-7, Ikskile, LV-5001, LatviaLatvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies, Liela 1, Jelgava, LV-3001, LatviaLatvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies, Liela 1, Jelgava, LV-3001, LatviaThis article presents preliminary analysis of the Latvian national EV fast - charging network after the first year of operation. The first phase of Latvian national EV fast-charging network was launched in 2018 with 70 charging stations on the TEN-T roads and in the largest towns and cities. The article looks at the initial results, both looking at the total capacity utilization for individual charging stations, determining the hourly charging distribution; and to the utilization of the network as a whole. The results present that there is a very large dispersion of the data, most of the charging events happening in a few charging stations in and around the capital of Latvia. However, there have been charging events in all charging stations, even in the most remote ones. Even more skewed distribution was observed analyzing the charging habits of the EV users, with 10 % of users accounting for more than half of the charging events. This should be taken into account when considering applying the results for the future, expecting larger number of electric vehicles in Latvia.https://doi.org/10.2478/rtuect-2019-0051electric vehiclesev charging infrastructureev charging statistics |
| spellingShingle | Rubenis Aivars Laizans Aigars Zvirbule Andra Latvian Electric Vehicle Fast Charging Infrastructure: Results of the First Year of Operation Environmental and Climate Technologies electric vehicles ev charging infrastructure ev charging statistics |
| title | Latvian Electric Vehicle Fast Charging Infrastructure: Results of the First Year of Operation |
| title_full | Latvian Electric Vehicle Fast Charging Infrastructure: Results of the First Year of Operation |
| title_fullStr | Latvian Electric Vehicle Fast Charging Infrastructure: Results of the First Year of Operation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Latvian Electric Vehicle Fast Charging Infrastructure: Results of the First Year of Operation |
| title_short | Latvian Electric Vehicle Fast Charging Infrastructure: Results of the First Year of Operation |
| title_sort | latvian electric vehicle fast charging infrastructure results of the first year of operation |
| topic | electric vehicles ev charging infrastructure ev charging statistics |
| url | https://doi.org/10.2478/rtuect-2019-0051 |
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