Optimal Management of Mobile Charging Stations in Urban Areas in a Distribution Network

The long waiting times of electric vehicles (EVs) and, the high investment and operation costs of fixed charging stations have negative effects on the higher penetration of EVs. Therefore, the mobile charging stations (MCSs) have been introduced in the last years to deal with the mentioned problems. In this study, a routing problem-based energy management strategy is proposed considering both the spatial status of EVs and temporal status of the EVs' charging demands for multiple MCSs in a linear programming framework. The main objective of the study is to minimize the charging costs while satisfying the charging requests of EVs, by also taking the daily price tariff into account. The results are validated through various case studies including different numbers of MCSs and wind power as a renewable energy source.