Scaling behavior for electric vehicle chargers and road map to addressing the infrastructure gap.

ABSTRACT: Enabling widespread electric vehicle (EV) adoption requires a substantial build-out of charging infrastructure in the coming decade. We formulate the charging infrastructure needs as a scaling analysis problem and use it to estimate the EV infrastructure needs of the USA at a county-level resolution. We find that gasoline and EV charging stations scale sub-linearly with their respective vehicle registrations, recovering the sub-linear scaling typical of infrastructure. Surprisingly, we find that EV charging stations scale super-linearly with population size within counties, deviating from the sub-linear scaling of gasoline stations. We discuss how this demonstrates the infancy of both EVs and EV infrastructure while providing a framework for estimating future EV infrastructure demands. By

SUBMITTER: Wadell A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10629978 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature