Analysis of the main factors influencing the energy consumption of electric vehicles

Electric vehicles are currently a held of research with many challenges that raise the interest of many researchers. The major challenge is about the autonomy of electric vehicles, which is limited as compared to that of conventional vehicles, and thus the drivers´ anxiety about reaching or not the desired destination is very important. In this paper, we propose an experimental study to understand the energy consumption of electric vehicles, and we investigate some factors that have an important impact on their autonomy, such as the route type, the driving style and the ambient temperature. This study can be very useful in a further step to conceive a driving assistance system that indicates in real time the remaining energy and gives online instructions to reach the next charging station or the final destination. The analysis reported in this paper is based on real-world data collected using a full electric car with different driving conditions.