Study on Electric Vehicles and Communication Technologies in Smart Grid Environment

Abstract

With rapid development of Electric vehicle technology market of EV has been expanded dramatically in past years. The conventional internal combustion engine vehicles uses fossil fuel while EV uses electric power from battery. Therefore EV emits no CO2 and pollutants and has higher efficiency. However EV has still problems to solve of high cost, short driving range and lack of charging station. Beside of these advantages a new role of EV as distributed energy storage has been proposed. This scheme is referred as Vehicle to Grid (V2G). To support V2G and smart charging for EV exchange of information between EV and power grid is necessary. This paper represents introduction of technologies for EV and EV charging infrastructure. Also communication technologies and standards for V2G interface and smart grid are also discussed. © 2018 SERSC Australia.