<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This article presents preliminary analysis of the Latvian national EV fast - charging network after the first year of operation. The first phase of Latvian national EV fast-charging network was launched in 2018 with 70 charging stations on the TEN-T roads and in the largest towns and cities. The article looks at the initial results, both looking at the total capacity utilization for individual charging stations, determining the hourly charging distribution; and to the utilization of the network as a whole. The results present that there is a very large dispersion of the data, most of the charging events happening in a few charging stations in and around the capital of Latvia. However, there have been charging events in all charging stations, even in the most remote ones. Even more skewed distribution was observed analyzing the charging habits of the EV users, with 10 % of users accounting for more than half of the charging events. This should be taken into account when considering applying the results for the future, expecting larger number of electric vehicles in Latvia.</p></abstract>

This article presents preliminary analysis of the Latvian national EV fast - charging network after the first year of operation. The first phase of Latvian national EV fast-charging network was launched in 2018 with 70 charging stations on the TEN-T roads and in the largest towns and cities. The article looks at the initial results, both looking at the total capacity utilization for individual charging stations, determining the hourly charging distribution; and to the utilization of the network as a whole. The results present that there is a very large dispersion of the data, most of the charging events happening in a few charging stations in and around the capital of Latvia. However, there have been charging events in all charging stations, even in the most remote ones. Even more skewed distribution was observed analyzing the charging habits of the EV users, with 10 % of users accounting for more than half of the charging events. This should be taken into account when considering applying the results for the future, expecting larger number of electric vehicles in Latvia.

Latvian Electric Vehicle Fast Charging Infrastructure: Results of the First Year of Operation

Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies

Environmental and Climate Technologies

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This article presents preliminary analysis of the Latvian national EV fast - charging network after the first year of operation. The first phase of Latvian...

Latvian Electric Vehicle Fast Charging Infrastructure: Results of the First Year of Operation

Published Online: Nov 18, 2019

Page range: 9 - 21

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rtuect-2019-0051

Keywords
Electric vehicles, EV charging infrastructure, EV charging statistics

© 2019 Aivars Rubenis et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Latvian Electric Vehicle Fast Charging Infrastructure: Results of the First Year of Operation

Published Online: Nov 18, 2019

Page range: 9 - 21

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rtuect-2019-0051

KeywordsElectric vehicles, EV charging infrastructure, EV charging statistics

© 2019 Aivars Rubenis et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
Electric vehicles, EV charging infrastructure, EV charging statistics