Battery-electric trucks, with their high battery capacity and predictability, are well-suited for bidirectional charging strategies. However, most studies on charging strategies have primarily focused on electric passenger cars.

Battery-electric trucks offer a high battery capacity and good predictability, making them attractive for the implementation of bidirectional charging strategies. Nevertheless, most of the previous charging strategy studies focus on electric passenger cars. These charging strategies are usually formulated as separate use cases like tariff-optimized charging, arbitrage trading, peak shaving, and self-consumption optimization. By combining different use cases, their economic potential can be increased. In this paper, we introduce a model to optimize charging processes in depots for electric vehicles considering the combination of different use cases. This model is applied to a depot for battery-electric trucks. The savings obtained through optimized bidirectional charging highlight the enormous potential of this technology for the future, especially in the heavy-duty sector.

Authors : Biedenbach, Florian, and Kai Strunz. 2024, "Multi-Use Optimization of a Depot for Battery-Electric Heavy-Duty Trucks" 

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