Event date:
Mar 9 2021 6:30 pm

Electric Vehicles Charging Infrastructure in Pakistan

Supervisor
Mr. Nauman Ahmad Zaffar
Student
Hafiz Owais Ahmad Khan
Venue
Zoom Meetings (Online)
Event
MS Synopsis defense
Abstract
The world is rapidly shifting its fleet from fossil fuel vehicles to other sources. These sources include hydrogen cells, hybrid electric vehicles and fully electric vehicles. To save the climate, different governments set their targets for maximum penetration of fully electric vehicles (EVs) in their national fleet. By following the international trend and environmental obligation, the government of Pakistan (GoP) also intended to adopt 30@30 EV penetration in the country, which means the present fossil fuel vehicle must be converted to fully electric vehicle till 2030. In the support, the GoP introduced different policy guidelines and incentives for vehicle fleet electrification. But the vehicle fleet can’t be fully electrified, as well as indigenized, if right steps are not taken as by international practices but according to the country’s ground realities. For fully electrification of vehicle fleet, the major hurdle is the absence of electric vehicle charging infrastructure. Even in the total absence of charging station infrastructure there is a slight number of Electric vehicles in the country. The Audi E-Tron till the end of 2020, almost sold to the number of eight hundred while the other EV variant almost two hundred in numbers. When the users asked about their feedback on their EVs, they were complaining charging. Almost all the users grumbling about the absence of public fast charging for their EVs as of fuel pumps availability. This even creates a range anxiety and even fear in the users. The remedy of this, to install the public EV charging stations at different points.

This research activity is an attempt to resolve the above-mentioned problem. For achieving the 30@30, reducing range anxiety, increasing the EV penetration, mitigating climate change and improve the country’s metropolitan environment, there is a need of proper planning for installation of charging stations. For increasing the EV penetration there is a need of Charging stations available all across major networks of the country, The focused area for this is National Highway 5, known as N5 while the other focused area is north to south motorway network of the country. The purpose of choosing this focused area is because, almost 70% of the population reside along these two networks. The key goal of this study is to propose the optimized locations for Level 3 chargers on these networks. For different percentage penetrations of EVs different number of chargers required. So, proposed different number of chargers at different locations.

Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/98548354597?pwd=bTBna0krNHFaVlYzSDlFWHdRMDk2UT09

Meeting ID: 985 4835 4597

Passcode: 037558