Electric vehicles charging stations network - A preliminary evaluation about Italian highways

Charging infrastructures have a fundamental role in the diffusion of Electrical Vehicles (EVs). An insufficient number of these could have negative effects on the EVs diffusion. This paper is going to analyze the Italian territory in order to provide an evaluation regarding the number of charging stations that Italian highways need. First of all attention was paid about the number of electrical vehicles situated in each Italian regions. Then, a cartographic study of the territory followed in order to identify the highways network and the traffic flow in it and a study of the main characteristics of the EVs over the past few years was carried. Finally, simulation results have demonstrated that the developed method supports the evaluation about the number of the charging stations that the Italian highways need.