Potential Need for Electric Vehicles, Charging Station Infrastructure and its Challenges for the Indian Market

This paper discusses about the potential need for electric vehicles (EV), charging station (CS) infrastructure and its challenges for the Indian scenario. Battery electric vehicles (BEVs) are promising class of drive trains in the coming years especially in urban regions in order to shift the decentralized exhaust emission in megacities to centralized power plants in rural areas. Up to now the BEV’s bottleneck is in the range of 100km per charge due to limited on board energy which can be optimized by introduction of plug-in hybrid vehicles along with real time road traffic management. With increase in liberalization, privatization and expansion of distributed and renewable power generation of Indian electricity market, transmission and distribution, as well as market processes related to the allocation of energy and energy mix are undergoing an evolutionary development with improved efficiency and reliability. A structured analysis of respective parameters is performed for the commercial scopes of electric vehicles in existing energy market. Market-based and regulatory concerns are considered to outline a scenario where an aggregator controls the charging of electric vehicles and provides ancillary grid services. Searching charging stations for electric vehicles is an important issue for the drivers which need the implementation of smart charging infrastructure network. Charging Station selection algorithms involve the overall information obtained through interactions between the EVsEVs and EVsCharging Station selection (CSS) server through the mobile network, delivering information regarding availability of charging slot at nearest CS, thus minimizing individual waiting time and provide improved efficiency. Praveen Kumar & Kalyan Dash 472