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A field experiment on workplace norms and electric vehicle charging etiquette

Workplace EV charging congestion threatens corporate decarbonisation targets. Asensio, Apablaza, Lawson and Walsh (Georgia Tech; EPIcenter affiliate Omar I. Asensio) examine whether a tiered price of $1 per hour after 4 hours and injunctive “charging-etiquette” emails can curb charger over-stay across 105 stations and 84 employees. High-frequency session data are analyzed with sharp and dynamic […]

Managing Vehicle Charging During Emergencies via Conservative Distribution System Modeling

When a hurricane is coming, can a city with lots of electric cars top-up all those batteries fast enough without frying the local power grid? Three Georgia Tech engineers—Alejandro Owen Aquino, Samuel Talkington and EPIcenter affiliate Daniel Molzahn—built a computer model to find out.   Using realistic-but-not-real data from Greensboro, North Carolina, the model shows that […]