Understanding Drivers of Electrification of Transportation Systems in a Commercial Context

The Case of Vehicle-to-Grid Applications in Electrified Fleets

Harnischmacher, Christine

• Publisher: Cuvillier Verlag
• Year: 2022
• eBook ISBN:
  9783736967052
• Print ISBN:
  9783736977051
• Edition: 1

The mitigation of global climate change poses one of the major challenges of the twenty-first century. Governments all around the world have set ambitious climate- and energy- specific targets that shape the development of the energy and transportation sectors. Increasing the share of renewable energies in the energy mix and substituting conventional vehicles with electric vehicles (EVs) at the same time poses significant challenges for the power grid. The coupling of the energy and transportation sectors offers a promising increase in energy efficiency, as the EVs' batteries can be used as storage for the provision of utility services by supplying power to the grid for stabilization. This is known as the vehicle-to-grid (V2G) application. Thus, suitable V2G applications can contribute to the security of energy supply while at the same time promoting electrified transportation and the integration of renewables. These applications are especially efficient in a commercial context, where the capacities of several batteries can easily be aggregated. This thesis investigates the role of IS for the electrification and V2G integration of commercial fleets. Four studies were conducted and are compiled in this dissertation that demonstrate the feasibility and provide guidelines for incorporating commercial electrified fleets as an active component of the energy economic value chain. The understanding gained enables viewing fleet electrification and V2G integration as IS enabled amplification of the energy economic value chain towards ecological sustainability.

Table of contents

• Acknowledgements
• Abstract
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Abbreviations
• A. Foundations
• I. Introduction
• I.1 Motivation
• I.2 Research Gap and Research Questions
• I.3 Structure of the Thesis
• I.4 Research Positioning and Design
• I.5 Anticipated Contributions and Implications
• II. Research Background
• II.1 Green Information Systems
• II.2 The Advent of Energy Informatics
• II.3 IS for Sustainable Mobility and Transportation
• II.4 Vehicle-to-Grid Applications in the context of containerterminals – Case Study FRESH
• B. Studies on Electrification of Commercial TransportationSystems
• I. Assessing the Status Quo
• 1. Study 1: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow –Perspectives on Green Information Systems ResearchStreams
• 1.1 Introduction
• 1.2 Literature Reviews on Green IS
• 1.3 Research Approach
• 1.4 Results and Findings
• 1.5 Development of Research Directions
• 1.6 Conclusion
• II. Research in Vehicle-to-Grid Applications
• 1. Study 2: Smart Grid in Container Terminals –Systematization of Cost Drivers for Using BatteryCapacities of Electric Transport Vehicles for GridStability
• 1.1 Introduction
• 1.2 Research Background
• 1.3 Setting
• 1.4 Research Approach
• 1.5 Results and Findings
• 1.6 Discussion
• 1.7 Limitations and Future Research
• 1.8 Conclusion
• 2. Study 3: Two-sided Sustainability: Simulating BatteryDegradation in Vehicle-to-Grid Applications withinAutonomous Electric Port Transportation
• 2.1 Introduction
• 2.2 Battery Degradation Models
• 2.3 Research Approach
• 2.4 Data
• 2.5 Simulation Results
• 2.6 Discussion and Implications
• 2.7 Conclusion
• III. Furthering Fleet Electrification
• 1. Study 4: (I Can’t Get No) Electrification – A Qualitative-Empirical Study on Electrification of TransportationFleets
• 1.1 Introduction
• 1.2 Research Background
• 1.3 Research Approach
• 1.4 Results
• 1.5 Discussion
• 1.6 Conclusion
• C. Contributions
• I. Findings and Results
• I.2 Findings through Research in Vehicle-to-GridApplications
• I.3 Findings for Furthering Fleet Electrification
• I.4 Synthesis of Findings: A Conceptualization of ISEnabledExtension of the Energy Economic Value Chain
• II. Implications
• II.1 Implications for Research
• II.2 Implications for Practice
• III. Limitations and Opportunities for Future Research
• III.1 Limitations
• III.2 Opportunities for Future Research
• IV. Concluding Remarks
• References
• Appendix
• Appendix A. Overview of the Author’s Individual StudyContribution
• Appendix B. Overview Further Published Studies
• Appendix C. Curriculum Vitae