Research Article

Range and Battery Depletion Concerns with Electric Vehicles

Table 2

Estimation results of the desired EV range model.

Explanatory variable Weibull distribution Log-normal distribution
Parameters for : Parameters for : Parameters for : Parameters for :

Constant ()
Possibility of having a charging station at home (dummy)
Number of cars owned
95% cumulative daily driving distance of the most frequently used vehicle (100 km)
Householder gender (dummy) (male)
Charging station deployment ratio
 Gas station
 Parking space at workplace
 Large-scale retail facility
 Small-scale retail facility
 Restaurant
 Short-term toll parking
 Public facility
 Expressway rest area
Joint parameter
Correlation coefficient

Number of respondents394
Log-likelihood only with constant
Final log-likelihood
AIC1540.7

< 0.1, < 0.05, and < 0.01. Variable calculated by using the probabilistic distribution of a household’s daily travel distance.