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Acceptability determination of electric vehicles: Case study in a typical distribution transformer

Abstract:

This paper aims to determine the acceptability of residential electric vehicle (EV) on distribution system networks. Since, in Ecuador the last year has been an important impulse for changing the conventional vehicles for electric ones, the government is launching new policies in order to foster the CO2 reductions by some alternatives; the first one considers deploying in the medium term EV in the main cities, the initiative will start changing vehicles in the public enterprises. In this paper, a study based in surveys to forecast the real EV penetration and its impacts into the distribution transformer is presented.