Cost analysis of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles including Maintenance & Repair Costs and Resale Values
By Bernd Propfe, Martin Redelbach, D. Santini, H. Friedrich. 2012
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This paper analyses the cost competitiveness of different electrified propulsion technologies for the German auto market in 2020. Several types of hybrid electric vehicles including parallel hybrids (with and without external charging) and a serial range extended electric vehicle are compared to a conventional car with SI engine, a full battery electric vehicle and a hydrogen powered fuel cell vehicle. Special focus lies on the maintenance and repair cost and the expected resale value of alternative vehicles, which have been integrated within one extensive total cost of ownership model. The assessment shows that the current TCO gaps for alternative drivetrains will decrease significantly by 2020 mainly driven by the reduction in production cost. Furthermore hybrid electric vehicles will profit from lower maintenance and repair cost and a higher expected resale value compared to conventional cars. Therefore, hybrid electric vehicles will be an attractive option in particular for users with high annual mileages, who can benefit from the low operating cost of EVs in combination with unlimited driving range. The analysis concludes that there will not be one dominant powertrain design in the midterm future. Hence, automakers have to manage a wide portfolio of competing drivetrain architectures, which will increase the risk and complexity of strategic decisions.
Subfields: Automotive Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering
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Citations in the corpus
- Total cost of ownership and its potential implications for battery electric vehicle diffusion (2016, background): “Maintenance and repair cost has been estimated to be lower for BEVs compared to ICEVs (Propfe et al., 2012).”
- What drives the market for plug-in electric vehicles? - A review of international PEV market diffusion models (2018, background): “[60] for a good approach when data are available).”
- Modelling market diffusion of electric vehicles with real world driving data – German market and policy options (2015, background): “The simulation of failure probabilities for each drive train component, done in [37], leads to specific maintenance costs for medium sized vehicles while small deviations in battery size of BEV and REEV between our model and [37] lead to minor adaptations.”