Smart Procurement of Naturally Generated Energy (SPONGE) for Plug-in Hybrid Electric Buses

TL;DR

This paper explores the SPONGE ECO-driving concept for plug-in hybrid electric buses, demonstrating its benefits and proposing distributed algorithms that address privacy concerns in the optimization process.

Contribution

It introduces the SPONGE ECO-driving approach for PHEBs, illustrating its advantages and developing privacy-preserving distributed algorithms for implementation.

Findings

SPONGE improves energy efficiency in PHEBs

Distributed algorithms enable privacy-aware optimization

Illustrative examples demonstrate practical benefits

Abstract

We discuss a recently introduced ECO-driving concept known as SPONGE in the context of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Buses (PHEB)'s.Examples are given to illustrate the benefits of this approach to ECO-driving. Finally, distributed algorithms to realise SPONGE are discussed, paying attention to the privacy implications of the underlying optimisation problems.