Evaluating the Electricity Production of Electric Vehicle-Integrated Photovoltaics via a Coupled Modeling Approach

This work uses a coupled modeling approach for evaluating the electricity production of vehicle-integrated photovoltaic (VIPV) systems with consideration of location-specific environmental conditions. We combine temperature-dependent electrical models with a heat transfer solver that allows the calculation of module temperatures and the irradiance incident on curved vehicle surfaces. The approach is used to compare the energy production of three different VIPV systems in five different locations in the United States.