Trøndertaxi will focus on electric cars from Tesla. Taxi company acquired useful knowledge last year when five electric cars were tested in urban areas and on the route Trondheim – Vaernes.
Published: 26 November 2013 at. 09:30 – Updated: 26 November 2013 at. 9:32
In cooperation with Trøndertaxi stood SINTEF for the testing of five Nissan Leaf electric vehicle and logged 1,500 trips on the three-mil stretch out to Værnes airport.
Taxi industry had as a separate requirement that the use of electric cars on this stretch had to be profitable for them.
Suitable for short trips
While the electric car was well placed in the center and in urban areas Byneset, Byåsen and Heimdal, researchers could quickly establish that stretch with 80-90 zones and climbs out to Vaernes was not the optimum for an electric vehicle.
While power consumption locati driving dropped to 153 Wh / km, the energy consumption on a trip to the airport, up to 195 Wh / km.
– The driver had to constantly have in your head how much power was available. Could he, for example, using the air conditioner, or it was too little power to it? Such judgments are not lucky, says Astrid Bjoergen Sund at SINTEF who have helped to quantify both the power consumption and the amount of power regenerated during braking.
– Another reason why electric cars are better suited for more bynær driving, is that we break more in these areas and thereby restoring much energy, explains Sund.
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Through testing of the Nissan Leaf, found Trøndertaxi out in cooperation with SINTEF that stretches with high speed and climbs were less profitable for this type of vehicle. Photo: Green Highway
Taxi owners listed on its site that driving with electric gave them reduced operating and maintenance costs, the cost of the tire went down and having satisfied customers.
same time as the earnings were insufficient and they should run into 2000-3000 dollars more per car a month to get to profitability.
– We believe such a price earnings can be achieved by fast-charge operators are reducing their prices, and we have established two additional fast-charging stations in Trondheim, says Bjørn-Ove Berthelsen Trondheim municipality that has led the project under the direction of Green Highway.
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Useful knowledge about electric cars
Green Highway project ended last summer, but Tom Rune Arns in Trøndertaxi can state that electric cars from Nissan will be used throughout the year.
in November cab company will also use the first electric cars from the car manufacturer Tesla. These have far greater reach and can be applied at longer distances.
Nissan Leaf cars can be used to deal more driving and jams as school transport, etc.
Arns believes that the most important aspect of electric vehicle project and collaborated with researchers, has been obtaining Trøndertaxi knowledge of the electric vehicle.
– We have learned that in order to operate efficiently with electric vehicles requires more planning and traffic management on our part. We must, for example, could bore trips to get to the good economy. Such knowledge is useful when we’re going to add about data traffic management system and ours.
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Increased sales
A thought behind the electric car project to the municipality, was that if passengers so that electric vehicle worked as a taxi, more would pursue this type of vehicle.
According to Tom Rune Arns, this seems to have turned to as the Nissan Leaf in Trondheim recorded record sales last year.
Bjørn Ove Berthelsen believes the project has had an impact in terms of selling the environmentally friendly transportation to the city’s population, and that there has been a lot of useful information out of this.
This case was originally published on Gemini.no – a site for Research news from NTNU and SINTEF. The author is affiliated with SINTEF.
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