Simulation and evaluation of charging control systems for electric vehicle car parks

In the near future, more and more vehicles will be driven by electricity instead of fossil fuels. Consequently, these electric vehicles need charging, for example when parked in car parks. Charging many electric vehicles simultaneously in a car park leads to various problems which need to be tackled. This is mainly due to the limited power availability, caused by the limited capacity of the conductors and transformers in place. Moreover, every vehicle has different charging requirements, due to the variety in parking time and driving distance after parking. Because of these reasons, every car park will need a system which controls the charging of electric vehicles, and determines which vehicles are charged at what time. In order to evaluate different charging control systems for car parks, a simulation environment is proposed in this paper. The proposed simulation environment is based on the Smart Objects System, and enables the simulation and evaluation of various charging control systems for car parks. Initial simulations performed with the proposed simulation environment show promising results.