The Return On Investment for Taxi Companies Transitioning to Electric Vehicles

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  • Tommy Carpenter
  • Andrew R. Curtis
  • S. Keshav
چکیده

We study whether taxi companies can simultaneously save petroleum and money by transitioning to electric vehicles. We propose a process to compute the return on investment (ROI) of transitioning a taxi corporation’s fleet to electric vehicles. We use Bayesian data analysis to infer the revenue changes associated with the transition. We do not make any assumptions about the vehicles’ mobility patterns; instead, we use a time-series of GPS coordinates of the company’s existing petroleum-based vehicles to derive our conclusions. As a case study, we apply our process to a major taxi corporation, Yellow Cab San Francisco (YCSF). Using current prices, we find that transitioning their fleet to battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) is profitable for the company. Furthermore, given that gasoline prices in San Francisco are only 5.4% higher than the rest of the United States, but electricity prices are 75% higher; taxi companies with similar practices and mobility patterns in other cities are likely to profit more than YCSF by transitioning to EVs.

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تاریخ انتشار 2011