Sharing your route in advance could cut electric car charging queue

By Matthew Sparkes

Electric cars are becoming more popular with consumers, but until the infrastructure to keep them charged expands, there is the potential for very long waits to top up batteries. A computer model can help. By taking information about the electric car journeys on any given day it can slash waiting times by 97 per cent.

Sven Schönberg at Paderborn University and Falko Dressler at the Berlin Institute of Technology, both in Germany, simulated 5000 electric vehicles undertaking trips of 500 kilometres in a single day on Germany’s …