Using EV Battery Packs for Vehicle-to-Grid Applications: An Economic Analysis by Lav, Agarwal, Wang, Peng, Lalit, Goel

“…However, with high current battery prices and increased battery wear due to more frequent charging and discharging during V2G operations, it becomes economically challenging in realizing a profitable business model. This paper presents an economic analysis of various V2G offerings in consideration of market prices and battery wear cost. …”
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Smart product-service systems : a novel transdisciplinary sociotechnical paradigm by Zheng, Pai, Wang, Zuoxu, Chen, Chun-Hsien

“…This emerging IT-driven transdisciplinary engineering paradigm is named Smart Product-Service Systems (Smart PSS), which is an ecosystem consisting of various stakeholders as the key players for open innovation (social aspect), intelligent systems as the infrastructure to enable smartness and connectedness (technical aspect), and digital servitization as the value proposition to make higher profits (business aspect). Though similar terminologies have been utilized to describe such paradigm, none of them emphasizes its transdisciplinary essence, as a sociotechnical system. …”
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