A Wireless Charging Infrastructure for Future Electrical Vehicular Adhoc Networks

Abstract

Electric vehicles are approximately doubling each year, and the growth is projected to continue to have 20 million electric vehicles on the roads by 2020. In order to reach this goal, research on charging next-generation electric cars have shown a lot of interest. One major challenge with electric vehicles is range anxiety. The proposed research in this paper combines protocol design, analytical, probabilistic and experimental techniques to conduct comprehensive studies on multihop wireless energy transfer serving an integrated electrical vehicular adhoc network (e-VANETs) infrastructure. Our work is the first that addresses multihop energy transfer in e-VANETs and will have a significant impact on fundamental design principles for the development of future electrical car wireless charging infrastructures