Technical session 5: Electric vehicles
and Climate Change
Enabling Electric Vehicles Using the Smart
Grid – George Arnold
Project Edison – Networking in a V2G Project
– Bernhard Jansen
Mass Deployment of Electric Cars – The Better
Place Solution – Ziva Patir
Vehicle Design Summit – Steven Jeremy Ntambi
Green GT – Jean-Francois Weber
Moderator: James Rosenstein
ITS Consultant
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Enabling electric vehicles using the
smart grid: Highlights
Smart grids are needed to: reduce energy use
and environmental impact, increase grid
efficiency, increase use of renewables, support
shift from oil to electric transportation, enhance
reliability and security of the electric system
Electric vehicles reduce environmental impact,
have good performance
NIST aims to provide an overall architecture and
select the right standards for the US, ensuring
interoperability
Information requirements include: identification,
vehicle monitoring, pricing, load management,
timing information
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Project Edison – Networking in a V2G
Project: Highlights
Goal: design energy system for whole country,
supporting many EVs and volatile renewable
energy resources
IBM’s role: develop a management system to
control charging of EVs, linked to wind energy
availability and optimal grid use
Need to consider: authentication requirements
and methods, V2G information exchange
Two different control mechanisms, open and
closed loop, with different communication
patterns
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Mass deployment of electric cars – the
Better Place solution: Highlights
Electric vehicles make environmental, social and
economic sense, especially mid-size
BetterPlace solution: charge spots, battery
switch, driver services, back office
Technology: easy adaptation to electric powering,
EV mass production technology well established,
most infrastructure already exists
Substantial reduction of CO2 and urban air
pollution, and the monetary cost of
environmental damage
Standardization essential, but difficulties in
balance among stakeholders, and no consumers,
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government,
NGOs or energy agencies involved
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Vehicle Design Summit: Highlights
VDS: student-led, new paradigm, leapfrogged
new technologies, developed on M.I.T. X-teams
model: extensive ties, flexible membership
Developed a 4-6 seater HEV networked vehicle,
did case study in India
Final concept based on modular power, including
straight electricity, hybrid architecture
Uganda team developed entire powertrain and
data networking hub
Way forward: leapfrog into new markets, convert
existing vehicles, explore new markets, industries
in populous countries, start with public transport
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Green GT: Highlights
The 24 Heures du Mans dilemma: how to
combine reason and safety with passion
and risk, and also protect the environment
125,000 l of fuel consumed in one week at
Le Mans; efforts now being made to
reduce this level
Green GT 100% clean: solar, hydrogen
fuel cell, batteries and electric power
Solar panels fully charge batteries
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Conclusions / Recommendations
Electric cars have major potential to
reduce environmental impact and the
cost of pollution
Smart grids are a major enabler, can
reduce energy use, increase grid
efficiency, increase use of
renewables, support shift from oil to
electric transport, enhance reliability
and security of the electric system
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Conclusions / Recommendations
There are information requirements
for the interaction between EVs and
the grid, along with authentication
requirements and several possible
methods
BetterPlace proposes a complete
solution, involving renewable energy,
EVs, batteries and software, a
customer interface and infrastructure
and service & control center
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Conclusions / Recommendations
M.I.T.’s X-team model is a useful
approach to achieve better
coordination and global solutions
Given the growth potential of
emerging markets, they should be a
major focus for EV development
Emotion and passion are a key
component in attracting customers
to alternative vehicles, and electric
race cars are a good initiative
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Conclusions / Recommendations
V2G requires many standards
Serious efforts need to be made to
overcome the profusion of standards,
the lack of coordination and balance
among stakeholders
Interoperability is a key goal
Essential to achieve buy-in of OEMs
and suppliers
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