U!SMF - Mobile autonomous pods for electric vehicle charging operations

Описание: 🎓 UNITE! Sustainable Mobility Forum – Lecture Series 2025/26
🌍 Topic: Mobile Autonomous Pods for Electric Vehicle Charging Operations
👤 Speaker: Prof. Wilco Burghout (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
🗓️ Friday, January 30, 2026 | 13:00–14:00 CEST

As cities move toward fully electric transport systems, a key challenge emerges: how can electric vehicles charge at scale without filling public space with fixed chargers?
This lecture explores an alternative concept—mobile autonomous charging pods: self-driving battery units that travel to vehicles and provide on-demand charging, even while vehicles are in operation.

Prof. Wilco Burghout presents recent research and simulation studies comparing mobile charging pods with conventional charging infrastructure. The talk examines how this approach can support electric fleets, buses, and shared mobility services, and what it means for battery sizing, system costs, operational reliability, and urban space use.

By connecting autonomous systems, energy logistics, and transport planning, the lecture highlights open research questions and design trade-offs for next-generation electric mobility systems.

🔌 Key Topics Covered

✔️ Challenges of large-scale EV charging in dense cities
✔️ Mobile autonomous charging pods: concept and operation
✔️ Comparison with fixed charging infrastructure
✔️ Implications for fleet electrification and public transport
✔️ Battery sizing, energy logistics, and system costs
✔️ Reliability, resilience, and urban space efficiency
✔️ Open research questions in smart mobility systems

Prof. Burghout is a leading expert in traffic simulation, system-wide modeling, and autonomous transport systems, and the developer of MEZZO and BusMezzo, widely used tools for large-scale transport analysis.

🔗 Learn more about the series

Series overview:
https://www.verkehr.tu-darmstadt.de/v...

Lecture schedule:
https://www.verkehr.tu-darmstadt.de/v...

📌 This seminar series is funded by the UNITE! Seed Fund Initiative.

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