Electric Taxis With A Battery Switching Station:Battery Capacity Optimization,Pricing And Infrastructure Planning

This paper study on three key decisions,in the perspective of switching stations,driving range,switching price and distribution of switching stations as well as the influences of battery characteristics,subsidies and other factors.When switching price is exogenous,this paper shows that the daily profit of a switching station exhibits the economies of scale to the population size of taxis,as well as to the daily miles traveled under specific condition.Additionally,if the battery cost is higher than the threshold,the profit is bound to be negative,even if the government subsidizes electric taxi drivers.But the profit is able to be positive if the switching price is endogenous.Moreover,the modularity of batteries is beneficial to switching stations.In addition,this paper takes the battery's two types of lifetime into consideration,and also shows that offering service to electric private vehicles and taxis,with the battery technology of modularity,switching stations can reduce more battery depreciation cost.It is innovative to model the behavior of taxi drivers and to optimize the driving range for electric taxis with a switching station.This paper can explain the phenomenon and problems happened in the electric taxis in Hangzhou.Also,it provides suggestions to the popularization of electric taxi to government,switching stations operators and automakers...