Preliminary Design to Overcome Range Anxiety in Indonesia Using the Quest Motors Electric Vehicles Ecosystem

Abstract

The adoption of electric vehicles in Indonesia is still not growing fast. One reason is that users have a range of anxiety about an electric vehicle because of the lack of places to charge or swap the batteries. Besides that, there is still a debate about whether using a charging station or a battery swap station is best. We must look at this problem from various points of view, including demography, geography, culture, and its impact on the socio-economy. We developed a preliminary ecosystem design of electric vehicles per demographics, geography, culture, and local problems in Indonesia. Our goal is to build this ecosystem with capital that is not large but has maximum benefits. Battery swap requires us to invest a lot of battery packs and the risk of damage to the pack. The charging station also requires us to invest in a place that is not cheap. We propose a mobile charger station, that patrols a zone, and is on-demand via an application. Moreover, it provides PLN electricity plugs (already everywhere) at hotspots, cafes, and other places. This solution at least has a smaller investment value of up to 10% and also, results in charging locations everywhere, which indirectly solves the problem of range anxiety in electric vehicles.