Resilient and Low-Footprint Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure

加拿大总理特鲁多表示，加拿大从疫情中恢复的计划必须包括采取强有力的行动来应对气候变化。然而，加拿大的气候政策和行动已被评为“严重不足”。在加拿大2021年登记的乘用车中，只有5%是电动汽车(EVS)。电动汽车普及率较低的主要原因之一是缺乏公开可用的充电基础设施。比较一些世界领先的国家/州和加拿大的电动汽车市场份额和公共快速充电器的供应情况表明，加拿大全面过渡到零排放汽车需要在全国范围内部署电动汽车充电器。在加拿大不同地区开发急需的电动汽车充电站需要应对多种技术和经济挑战。这些问题包括：(I)需要额外的发电、输电和配电能力，以满足额外的充电电力需求，特别是在人口稠密的城市地区；(Ii)因公用事业电网中断而导致电力运输中断的风险，特别是在自然灾害期间；以及(Iv)网络安全方面的担忧。拟议的研究计划旨在通过开发一种创新的电动汽车充电解决方案来应对这些挑战，该解决方案基于低占地面积的旋转停车塔结构和微电网框架，可对自然灾害、停电和故障具有弹性。

Canada's plans for recovery from the pandemic must include strong action to tackle climate change, according to Prime Minister Trudeau. However, Canada's climate policies and actions have been rated as "Highly Insufficient". Only 5% of the passenger vehicles registered in 2021 in Canada were Electric Vehicles (EVs). One of the major reasons for this relatively low EV adoption rate is the shortage of publicly available charging infrastructures. Comparing the EV market share and public fast charger availability in some of the world-leading countries/states and Canada indicates that full transition to zero-emission vehicles in Canada requires nationwide deployment of EV chargers. Developing the urgently needed EV charging stations in different regions of Canada requires addressing multiple technical and economic challenges. These include (i) need for additional power generation, transmission, and distribution capacities to meet the extra charging power demand especially in densely populated urban areas, (ii) risk of electric transportation disruption due to utility grid outages, especially during natural disasters, and (iv) cybersecurity concerns. The proposed research program aims to address these challenges by developing an innovative EV charging solution that is based on a low-footprint rotary parking tower structure and a microgrid framework that leads to resilience against natural disasters, blackouts, and faults.