Affiliation:
1. Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, SCE—Shamoon College of Engineering, Beer-Shvea 8410802, Israel
Abstract
Electric vehicles (EVs) have become popular in the last decade because of their advantages compared to conventional vehicles. The market offers dozens of EV models in a large range of prices, performances, and specifications. This paper presents an expert system we developed to support sellers and customers in choosing an EV that matches the customers’ specifications. The system enables ranking-specific EVs according to the customers’ specifications and counting the number of mismatches. The paper analyzes a database of 53 different EVs, each with 22 different characteristics, enabling customers to choose the EV that best suits their most important specifications. Based on the customer’s requirements and the principle of fuzzy sets, the system assigns a matching value to each criterion. These matching values are the input matrix for the TOPSIS procedure that ranks all the EVs according to their matching scores for a specific customer. The applicability of the proposed method is demonstrated for one customer with specific preferred EV requirements. A Python code of this method is also available herein.
Subject
Energy (miscellaneous),Energy Engineering and Power Technology,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment,Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Control and Optimization,Engineering (miscellaneous),Building and Construction
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