New Business Opportunities Leveraging the Flexibility Potential of Electric Shared Vehicle Fleets.
Guntram Pressmair, Jakob Papouschek, Michael Thelen, Roberto Rocchetta, Jalomi Maayan Tardif, Aviva Shemesh (2025): New Business Opportunities Leveraging the Flexibility Potential of Electric Shared Vehicle Fleets. GAMES Industry White Paper
The overall concept of using EVs as flexible storage seems simple and convincing: There are countless cars spread out throughout our cities, moving during rush hour but idle most of the day. With modern cars having battery capacities from 50 up to 100 kWh, this sums up to vast amounts of battery storage being available for supporting electricity grids and shifting energy demand towards times of renewable surplus generation. But what sounds like a low hanging fruit in theory faces a lot of practical barriers: How to coordinate all those cars in an efficient manner? Does it affect the lifespan of the batteries? And most importantly, is there actually a viable business model for both fleet owners and energy industry? Focussing on the latter question, this report investigates potential business opportunities in three distinctive case studies: from PV self-consumption optimisation at a company headquarter in Austria, peak shaving for better grid stability in the city of Zurich, to using PV surplus generation in a (possibly) highly solar energy system of Tel Aviv metropolitan area in the year 2030 – all made possible by deploying smart charging strategies of electric vehicles, operated as shared vehicle fleets. Based on these case studies, the authors want to find out more about the energy prices, tariff structures, fleet sizes and much more that are needed in order to make such business models happen as soon as possible. The analysis is based on real and simulated mobility data retrieved from the national partners in Switzerland (Mobility.ch and SUPSI university) and Israel (AutoTel and Reichman University) and uses the “e7 flexibility model”, specifically developed for the GAMES project by the Austrian research and consulting company e7 energy innovation & engineering.
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