Heavy-Duty Electric Truck Depot Charging Load Profiles

Comprising 24-hour fleet depot charging load profiles with 15-minute average demand data and substation load integration assessment results. It was produced for a 2021 study on heavy-duty truck electrification impacts on electricity distribution systems. The associated code for generating the profiles is publicly available.

Use Cases

• Model the impact of 15-minute average depot charging demand on substation load integration.
• Analyze 24-hour charging load profiles to assess grid capacity for heavy-duty electric vehicle fleets.
• Simulate electricity distribution system stress using the provided substation load integration assessment results.

Strengths

• Data is associated with a peer-reviewed study published in Nature Energy in 2021.
• The code used to generate the load profiles is publicly available for reproducibility.
• Focuses on a specific and critical application: heavy-duty truck depot charging and grid integration.

Limitations

• The specific data volume (rows, columns) and file sizes are not documented.
• The temporal and geographic scope of the underlying simulation data is not specified.
• Primary data files are in BIN format, which may require specialized tools to read.

Provenance

Source

Department of Energy, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (inferred from associated GitHub repository).

Collection Method

Generated via simulation for a published research study; methodology detailed in the associated paper and code.

Time Range

Data represents simulated 24-hour profiles; study published in 2021.

Freshness

The dataset metadata was last updated in March 2026, but the underlying study and data generation are from 2021.