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Understanding the challenges behind electric vehicle usage by drivers: a case study in the Madeira Autonomous Region
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Abstract(s)
Electric Vehicles (EV) adoption targets have been set by govern ments from countries throughout Europe, related to the European
goals, for the decarbonization of the road transport sector. The
change for electric vehicle technology can be challenging to EV
users for several reasons such as battery autonomy, time to charge
the vehicle, and the different driving conditions. The work in this
paper aims to study how users from Madeira and Porto Santo is lands deal with the challenges of EV usage. Furthermore, this paper
also studies the role of the orography in the Regenerative Braking
System technology integrated into electric vehicles. To assess such
information, an online questionnaire was prepared and sent out to
the electric vehicle community of both islands. The main results of
this study show drivers’ preference to charge the vehicles at their
household and that users are satisfied with the vehicle’s technology.
Also, users’ battery range anxiety did not seem to have a significant
impact. Moreover, from the drivers’ point of view, there is still the
need to study the role of orography, while using the regenerative
braking system.
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Electric vehicles Driver Charging infrastructure Regenerative braking system Orography Islands Madeira (Portugal) . Faculdade de Ciências Exatas e da Engenharia
Citation
Barros, L., Barreto, M., & Pereira, L. (2020, June). Understanding the challenges behind electric vehicle usage by drivers: a case study in the Madeira Autonomous Region. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on ICT for Sustainability (pp. 88-97). https://doi.org/10.1145/3401335.3401667
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ACM