ELECTRIC DRIVE
Description
Objectives
The objective of SPITS' Electric Drive is to monitor an electric vehicle's state of charge, warn the driver of low battery charge, and use the SPITS OBU to book a charging station as well as navigate to it automatically.
Inputs
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Battery SOC from CAN bus
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On-board unit (GPS receiver, cellular technology support)
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Navigation map database with registered charging points
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Partnership with charging point vendors to place bookings
Benefits
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When the number of electric vehicles increase, the number of existing charging points available will reduce. So booking ahead of time, with input from vehicle range, can help lower driver’s range anxiety
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Currently, no such application exists in the Netherlands
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By charging a small fee for booking, vendors can earn revenue
Limitations
Electric Drive
Developed by
Project Status
Communication Protocol
SPITS
Demonstrated
Celullar Communications (4G LTE, HSDPA)
Project Outcomes
From the information available, the application was tested in the Burton car. However, there's no info available on whether the booking service worked or not
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Unless it’s free, user acceptance is reported to be low because charging points are readily available to use and number of battery electric vehicles is relatively low
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The need to pre-book ahead of time may not be appealing because of availability of charging point any time
Scorecard
SPITS has created a service to manage the specific characteristics of an electric vehicle. The application reads the status of all battery cells in the Burton car. The application locates the nearest charging pole from the current position and by using the SPITS on-board unit it enables the driver to book this charging pole and have the car navigate to this location automatically.
Refer to “Evaluation” for details on scoring.