Design of solar battery swapping station for EV using LSTM-assisted solar power forecasting

Electric vehicles (EVs) are gaining importance nowadays as these are the best option for green transportation. But the charging of the electric vehicle is again a challenging task as it takes hours to charge the EV which is not acceptable to the customers. Also, if we charge the EV using a conventional grid it is again an extra burden on the grid. So, we need to find some solution for these issues and the best solution is using a battery swapping station instead of a battery charging station which will take just 2 min to swap the battery instead of charging. And to reduce the burden on the grid we can use solar or other renewable energies to charge the batteries at swapping stations. In this paper, solar power is used to charge the battery packs and if in an emergency situation solar power is not sufficiently available to ensure the availability of fully charged battery packs then the power can be taken from the grid or other renewable energy sources. Solar power is forecasted using the long short-term memory (LSTM) model for better power scheduling to the grid or other renewable energies.