Electric Vehicle recharge pricing under competition, a game theoretic approach
Résumé
Electric Vehicles (EV) are a key element of future
smart cities, providing a clean transportation technology and
potential benefits for the grid. Nevertheless, limited vehicle
autonomy and lack of charging stations are preventing EVs to be
broadly accepted. To address this challenge, French GreenFeed
project is working to develop an interoperable and universal
architecture to allow EV recharge across multiple cities and
countries. In this work, we consider such architecture and focus
on price setting by its main actors. We show how a Stackelberg
game models the market, and we study the outcomes when users
choose arecharge station according to objective and subjective
parameters. Simulation shows the different actors' profits, and
the sodal and user welfare for different scenarios.