The document describes the ABCD (Agent-based Buying Charging Driving) model. The ABCD model is an agent-based model that simulates the future of electric mobility in the Netherlands by modeling the behaviors of individual agents such as consumers, vehicles, and charging points. The model takes a bottom-up approach to understand phenomena from the behaviors and interactions of individual agents. It is used to study topics like the adoption of electric vehicles, impact on the electricity grid, and optimal policy interventions over time.
Agent-Based Modelling of Electric Mobility Adoption
1. ABCD model
Agent-based Buying Charging Driving model
Auke Hoekstra
Senior advisor smart mobility TU/e
Strategic consultant ElaadNL, Alliander, Urgenda, FET & NKL
E-mail: auke@aukehoekstra.nl
Twitter: @aukehoekstra
Future Smart Mobility ECOMOBIEL
Auke Hoeksra, Senior Advisor Electric Mobility TU/e
a.e.hoekstra@tue.nl @aukehoekstra
2. ABCD model
Agent-based Buying Charging Driving model
Auke Hoekstra
Senior advisor smart mobility TU/e
Strategic consultant ElaadNL, Alliander, Urgenda, FET & NKL
E-mail: auke@aukehoekstra.nl
Twitter: @aukehoekstra
Modelling the future of Electric Mobility
in the Netherlands
Auke Hoeksra, Senior Advisor Electric Mobility TU/e
a.e.hoekstra@tue.nl @aukehoekstra
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7. Automotive Technology
Sqiffer questions
• When will electric cars become cheaper?
• Why is the motor so much better?
• Do electric cars really emit less CO2?
• What is the role of hydrogen?
• How can EVs boost the introduction of off-shore wind?
• How can EVs boost the introduction of solar panels?
• How can EVs threaten or help electricity grid stability?
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9. / name of department
I know what I’m taking about with my Nissan Leaf
(120km range): range anxiety is real!
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Why will electric vehicles take over?
(the extremely simplified version)
• 1/3 of the energy use => 1/3 of energy cost
250.000 km in VW Golf = 22.000 liter = 35.000 euro
Idem in EV is 10.000 euro: you save 25.000 euro.
• Motor doesn’t need maintenance => 1/3 of maintenance costs
You save 7.000 euro (Together with energy 32.000)
• Battery for 350 km range (65kWh, consumer price):
2007: 100.000 euro (you lose 65.000)
2017: 25.000 euro (you save 10.000)
2027: 10.000 euro (you save 25.000)
• Bonus: sports car motor with the price and
efficiency of a regular car motor
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32. Learning curves driven by feedback loops
Here you see what
goes wrong if you
don’t use learning
curves and feedback
loops. And the IEA is
the most influential
organisation in the
world in the field of
energy!
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Battery price developments
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Source: “Rapidly falling costs of battery packs for electric vehicles” by Björn Nykvist and Mans Nilsson,
Nature Climate Change, March 2015
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We have researched this intensively
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Predicted Battery Price
Price€/kWh
0
300
600
900
1200
Year
2000 2008 2015 2023 2030
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Not only using extrapolation but also by using bottom up analysis
of raw materials and processes used.
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25
50
75
100
Battery Cost breakdown
5
4
9
4
4
4
5,0
16
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Materials
Purchased Items
Direct labour
Variable overhead
General, sales, administration
R&D
Depreciation
Profit
Warranty
Source: R. Kochhan, et. Al., “An Overview of Costs for Vehicle Components, Fuels and Greenhouse Gas
Emissions,” Publ. Www Res. Net, Feb, 2014.
Rest of vehicle
60,0
Battery Pack
40,0
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It shows that even current day batteries can become 5-10 times cheaper ($50-$100 in
2050). If solid state batteries or metal air batteries break through things will become
even more interesting.
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Li-S
LR-NCM
NCM
0 75 150 225 300
Raw material
Process
Overheads
Source: Adapted from “Rechargeable Batteries: Grasping for the Limits of Chemistry” by Petr Novak, Journal
of Electrochemical Society, October 2015
38. So how come EVs are getting cheaper?
The motor is the answer.
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ICE Electric
1,6 kW/kg 4,3 kW/kg 3x more powerful
per kg
0,4kW/lr 13,6 kW/lr 40x smaller per kW
20-25% efficient 90-98% efficient 3x more efficient
Many moving
parts
1 moving part morerelialble
Leuk!
39. Two ways to bring 300 kW to the wheels (BMW and
Tesla to scale)
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40. Two ways to bring 300 kW to the wheels (BMW and
Tesla to scale)
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41. EV: fast cars are no longer inefficient
Bugatti Veyron (0-100 2.5 sec – 2 pers) in the city = 40l/100km (4kWh/km)
Tesla (0-100 2,3 sec – 7 pers) in the city = 0,2 kWh/km
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So a VERY rough
calculation of battery
size in kWh is:
desired range in km / 5
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Drive train cost developments
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We had to adjust findings to observed market
cost. So again double analysis: bottom-up from
parts and top down from market prices.
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Discount rate
• We chose a discount rate of 5%
• However, even a discount rate of 10% moves the break even
point by less than a year in most scenarios
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Conclusions
• FEVs trump PHEVs because higher sticker price, energy costs
and maintenance costs is outweighted by lower battery prices
• New cars (25000 km/y) wil become profitable without subsidies
before 2020 in the Netherlands
• Second hand cars are even more profitable
• Adoption speed will be driven by awareness of TCO, availability
of charging infrastructure, and availability of cars
• New types of models can more accurately predict adoption,
impact on (renewable) electricity grid and optimal interventions
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Electric long haul trucks?
(Is the Tesla semi believable?)
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https://www.livinglabsmartcharging.nl/nl/Auteurs/auke-hoekstra
54. Heterogeneous actors by using agent-based modelling:
“play out” the real life system in the computer.
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▪ Bottom-up modelling:
system not defined in advance.
▪ Every agent is unique and you
can have many thousands of
them.
▪ De-facto standard for socio-
technical systems [4].
▪ Agents can be people but also
institutions, machines or
buildings.
[3] https://www.anylogic.com/use-of-simulation/agent-based-modeling/
[4] K. H. Van Dam, “Capturing socio-technical systems with agent-based modelling,” PhD Thesis,
TU Delft, Delft University of Technology, 2009.
Source: [3]
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Vehicles will also become smaller because most trips are 1 person
trips: cheaper, less PM, serious accidents, roads and parking
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Conclusions
1. Elektric vehicles will be cheaper and more fun to drive
1/3 of energy and maintenace costs & cheap battery
2. Cars will become autonomous
in 30 years you can only drive yourself on Zandvoort:
advantages are less accidents and roads and more time
3. Cars will be shared
Spacious, green, healthy, silent & safe cities with
better mobility at lower costs
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