Technical Report on EV Field Tests

This report refers to the field tests conducted on EVs and e-Buses in the work-package "Smart Grid Solution". Carried out on vehicles currently on the market simulating their daily utilisation, the field tests had the scope of measuring EV storage capacities as well as their charging needs and their energy consumption. The first part of the report describes the test rationale set-up, having the scope of choosing test typologies, fixing operational rules and procedures, and finally selecting places, users and operators. Field tests have produced as main outcome a robust collection of quantitative and qualitative data. The quantitative data have been collected by means of five different tools: a data logger installed in the vehicle, a GPS, the CAN-bus, the RFID scans of participants' badges, and finally the charging pole meter. It was also possible to monitor EVs' different travel behaviours by using the MOVE-platform. To complement quantitative data, surveys were dis-tilled to tests' participants and qualitative data collected. These data have had the scope of evaluating in a dynamic way test participants perception of the EVs', and then to investigate of their potential change in culture and consciousness.