What is it about?
This is an overview on the use of solar energy to charge electric vehicles in parking lots. It critically aggregates the accumulated knowledge in this field, including the environmental benefits and the technical and economic challenges they still have to face. In addition, we also present some case studies!
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Why is it important?
Electric vehicles are the future of mobility! Imagine that all these cars were charged with electricity from fossil or radioactive fuels... Senseless! But if we are able to charge our cars during the day, when we are at work, with clean solar energy, then it would make sense. But does it work? How much would it cost? What would be the environmental benefits? This is important to know!
Perspectives
Engaging in this study was very important for me because it made me realise how many authors have already thought a lot about solar parking lots. Moreover, the comprehensive literature review taught me a lot about charging plans, something that I didn't know it was so important! I learned that charging plans have a wide range of goals and each one of them can have important limitations and constraints.
Raquel Figueiredo
Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon
The need for this review emerged when we're first started assessing if the idea could work -- and realized that many people have been thinking about the concept and the technical and economical challenges, but that a general perspective overview to help one sort out what is relevant was missing.
Miguel C Brito
Lisboa
This work served as an important basis for our subsequent work on solar parking lots for electric cars. It allowed us to know what was already done, and how was done, and, based on this, we could take a further step in the knowledge of solar parking lots.
Pedro Nunes
Universidade de Lisboa
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This page is a summary of: The use of parking lots to solar-charge electric vehicles, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, December 2016, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2016.08.015.
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