Electric car

Electric vehicles could provide a large buffer volume for electricity when they are connected to the grid. Since you typically buy your car for a different purpose (i.e. mobility), we do not take any costs into account for using your electric vehicle for buffering electricity. At present, electric vehicles are, however, more expensive than cars with a combustion engine. You can set the expected additional investment costs in your national scenario using the additional investment costs slider in the ETM. These additional investment costs will be taken into account in ETMoses.

Electric vehicles come with a wide variety of battery volumes. We have decided to use a battery storage volume of 25 kWh as a representative volume for now. This is however developing quickly. All other parameters can be found in the the EV node source analysis.

As mentioned before, electric vehicles can only be charged or discharged if they are connected to the grid. This behaviour is described by so called load profiled, the details of which can be found in the Profiles section. Electric vehicles can be used in several strategies.