Modelling and Simulation on Recycling of Electric Vehicle Batteries – Using Agent Approach

This study investigates electric vehicles battery recycling problem. In this study, based on Agent theory and Anylogic platform, Agent model of battery recycling is built. We have done simulation for electric vehicle batteries recycling: this paper analyses the influence that factors (battery renovation rate, quantities of electric vehicles, electric vehicle lifetime, battery lifetime, battery renovation time) have on recycling (quantities of wasted batteries, quantities of reused batteries, optimal quantities of batteries). Through simulation, this study shows that factors’ influence on recycling depends on the relative life RL greatly. When renovation rate changes in the interval [0.7, 0.8], the results fluctuate greatly, such as optimal quantities of batteries will decrease about 10 %, quantities of reused batteries can increase about 30 %, and quantities of wasted batteries will have a sharp decline by about 40 %; the model is optimal until battery renovation times are increased to three. (Received, processed and accepted by the Chinese Representative Office.)