An Attention‐Based Model for Travel Energy Consumption of Electric Vehicle with Traffic Information

Mileage anxiety is one of the most important factors that affect the driving experience due to the limitation of battery capacity. Robust and accurate prediction of the energy consumption of the journey of the electric vehicle can guide the driver to allocate the power rationally and relieve the anxiety of the mileage. Since vehicle sharing is the biggest application scenario of electric vehicles, it is a critical challenge in share mobility research area. In this paper, a travel energy consumption prediction model of electric vehicles is proposed in order to improve the mobility of shared cars and reduce the anxiety of drivers because they are worried about insufficient power. A recurrent neural network with attention mechanism and deep neural network is used to build the model. To validate the proposed model, a simulation is demonstrated based on both traffic and vehicle information. After the simulation, experimental results show that the proposed model has high prediction accuracy, and we also show through visualization how the model finds high relevant road segments of the road network while dealing with corresponding traffic state input.