Intelligent route guidance for Electric Vehicles in the Smart Grid

In recent years, the number of electric vehicles (EVs) on the road has been steadily increasing. At the same time, availability of the charging infrastructure on the road is still limited. In this paper, we propose a new scheme to guide EVs toward charging stations so as to minimize their waiting time and power energy consumption to get a charging service. The scheme uses wireless communication between EVs and the smart aggregator. It takes into account the state-of-charge (SoC) of EVs, their position, and available charging stations on the road. It also considers traffic, and occupancy of charging stations. Simulations were performed to assess the performance of our proposed scheme. Results show that the scheme effectively minimizes energy consumption and waiting times for EVs.