Plug-in Vehicle Behaviors: An analysis of charging and driving behavior of Ford plug-in electric vehicles in the real world
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This paper analyzes the charging and driving behavior collected from thousands of North American Ford full battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) whose owners utilize the MyFord Mobile smart phone app, thus enabling aggregated data for analysis. The trends investigated include charging frequency, electric vehicle miles travelled (eVMT), daily miles driven, and other factors.
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The autumn high load is strongly related to ambient temperature beginning to decrease, reducing available battery range, and owners charging more often to ensure sufficient range.
“This fact is strongly related to the fact as the ambient temperature begins to decrease, the available battery range gets reduced, and owners may be charging their vehicles more often to ensure they have sufficient range to reach their final destination [16].”
From Seasonality Effect Analysis and Recognition of Charging Behaviors of Electric Vehicles: A Data Science Approach (2020) · cites this paper as [16]
The “Summer Winter” section says cold temperatures reduce available BEV range and suggests owners may charge more often to ensure they can reach their destination. It discusses winter charging, not an autumn high load, and does not establish a strong relationship between that load and falling temperatures. (LLM, conf=0.85)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredEV charging loads are sensitive to seasons.
“EV charging loads are sensitive to seasons”
From Seasonality Effect Analysis and Recognition of Charging Behaviors of Electric Vehicles: A Data Science Approach (2020) · cites this paper as [16]
Section 3.1 (Charge Events per Week; page unavailable) reports that PHEVs charge slightly less in winter and BEVs slightly more, with a California exception. This supports seasonal variation in charging frequency, but the paper does not establish seasonal changes in electrical charging loads. (LLM, conf=0.84)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredBoston and Werthman's findings show that electricity prices, local charging infrastructure, and seasonal weather changes may affect driving behavior and then charging habits.
“Their findings shows that electricity prices, local charging infrastructure, and seasonal weather changes may affect driving behavior and then charging habits [16].”
From Seasonality Effect Analysis and Recognition of Charging Behaviors of Electric Vehicles: A Data Science Approach (2020) · cites this paper as [16]
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- PlugShare, "PlugShare Quarterly -2016-Q1 Census, US Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Exhibits," PlugShare, Venice, CA, 2016.
- Authors
- Boston, D., & Werthman, A.
- Affiliations
- Ford Motor Company (United States) (US)
- Corresponding author
- Boston, Daniel
- Venue
- World Electric Vehicle Journal
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Published
- 2016-12-30
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 926-935
- ISSN
- 2032-6653 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2803526870
- Cited by
- 29
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 3 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 6 · 2017: 1
- FWCI
- 1.08
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- dx.doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- World Electric Vehicle Journal (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Automotive Engineering › Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Technologies
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Automotive Engineering › Vehicle emissions and performance
- Keywords
- plug-in electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, battery electric vehicles, charging behavior, driver behavior, charging frequency, Ford
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