An open tool for creating battery-electric vehicle time series from empirical data - emobpy

There is substantial research interest in how future fleets of battery-electric vehicles will interact with the power sector. To this end, various types of energy models depend on meaningful input parameters, in particular time series of vehicle mobility, driving electricity consumption, grid availability, or grid electricity demand. As the availability of such data is highly limited, we introduce the open-source tool emobpy. Based on mobility statistics, physical properties of vehicles, and other customizable assumptions, it derives time-series data that can readily be used in a wide range of model applications.