This paper studies the problem of multi-stage placement of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations with incremental EV penetration rates. A nested logit model is employed to analyze the charging preference of the individual consumer (EV owner), and predict the aggregated charging demand at the charging stations. The EV charging industry is modeled as an oligopoly where the entire market is domi...

The enormous growth in the penetration of electric vehicles (EVs), has laid the path to advancements in the charging infrastructure. Connectivity between charging stations is an essential prerequisite for future EV adoption to alleviate users’ “range anxiety”. The existing charging stations fail to adopt power provision allocation and scheduling management. To improve the existing charging infr...

The widespread diffusion of electric vehicles (EVs) suffers from the lack of a well-developed public charging infrastructure, which currently is uneconomical to develop for investors. Many owners of EVs have private charging stations at their premises, which yield unlockable potential due to high idling times. In line with sharing platforms for other goods like accommodations and cars, we prese...

The fast charging of Electric Vehicles (EVs) in distribution networks requires real-time EV charging control to avoid the overloading of grid components. Recent studies have proposed congestion control protocols, which result from distributed optimization solutions of the Network Utility Maximization (NUM) problem. While the NUM formulation allows the definition of distributed computations with...

Abundantly available solar energy utilization for domestic and industrial applications is hindered because of its intermittent nature. The thermal energy storage (TES) system using both sensible and latent heat has many advantages like large heat storage capacity in a unit volume and its isothermal behavior during the charging and discharging processes. Because of these advantages, in recent ye...

I N RECENT TIMES, wireless power charging of electric vehicles (EV) has gained huge attentions. Static wireless charging for EVs has seamlessly been achieved using the inductive power transfer (IPT) technology. More recently, dynamic (also termed in-motion) wireless charging with IPT technology has been successfully demonstrated for electric mass transportation means like electric trains, trams...

The ACTS project on Contract Negotiation and Charging in ATM Networks (CANCAN) is now entering its second year. This paper will describe some of the activities of Work Package 2 in laying the foundation for the development of effective ATM charging schemes. Of great importance are the charging parameters which may be divided into access parameters considered at the registration of a service, an...

This engineering note is about prepaid charging and comparing prepaid charging with post paid charging. I also try to find out what kind of challenges mobile Internet will bring in prepaid world.

In industry development strategy of electric vehicles, apart from concerns on the development of electric vehicles, we also need to consider the issue of charging facilities construction. Firstly, through analysis, this paper discusses the importance of AC charging points for electric vehicle development. By studying existing AC charging points on the market, it presents a low-cost smart AC cha...