Economy Benefit and Business Operating Service Pricing Model of Electric Taxi

Abstract:

Electric taxi was tested on the basis of the existing fuel oil taxi business model in Shanghai. The 6 kinds of operation model were structured based on battery charging and leasing model, charging time and swapping frequencies, and daily operation time. The energy consumption regression model based on the electric taxi driving quality was used to define vehicle power battery capacity of 6 different models. The whole lifecycle evaluation model of economy benefit was made with a consideration of purchase cost, usage cost, driver salary, and business revenue. Three scenarios were defined including gasoline price increasing, electric power increasing, and battery cost decreasing. The business operation service pricing model of electric taxi was made based on previous 6 models and three scenarios. The results show that the profitability of battery swapping model is higher than that of the charging model. With annually increasing of 5% of the gasoline price, the electric taxi will get the same profit with fuel oil taxi in 5 years. With annually increasing of 10% of the electric power price, the business operation service price of electric taxi will rise by 1%. When battery cost decreases by 50%, the business operation service price of electric taxi will be 7% lower than the fuel oil taxi.