The introduction of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) could help to reduce dependence on fossil fuels and emissions from transportation and as such increase energy security and foster sustainable use of energy resources. However a major barrier to the introduction of BEVs is their limited battery capacity and long charging durations. To address these issues of BEVs several solutions are proposed...

Currently, electric taxis have been deployed in many cities of China. However, the charging unbalance in both temporal and spatial scale has become a rising problem, which leads to low charging efficiency or charging congestion in different stations or time periods. This paper presents a multi-objective coordinated charging strategy for electric taxis in the temporal and spatial scale. That is,...

Uncoordinated charging of large-scale electric vehicles (EVs) will have a negative impact on the secure and economic operation of the power system, especially at the distribution level. Given that the charging load of EVs can be controlled to some extent, research on the optimal charging control of EVs has been extensively carried out. In this paper, two possible smart charging scenarios in Chi...

Uncoordinated charging of large-scale electric vehicles (EVs) will have a negative impact on the secure and economic operation of the power system, especially at the distribution level. Given that the charging load of EVs can be controlled to some extent, research on the optimal charging control of EVs has been extensively carried out. In this paper, two possible smart charging scenarios in Chi...

Quantum transport through single molecules is very sensitive to the strength of the molecule-electrode contact. Here, we investigate the behavior of a model molecular junction weakly coupled to external electrodes in the case where charging effects do play an important role Coulomb blockade regime . As a minimal model, we consider a molecular junction with two spatially separated donor and acce...

Car-sharing practices are introducing electric vehicles (EVs) into their fleet. However, the literature suggests that at this point shared EV systems are failing to reach satisfactory commercial viability. A potential reason for this is the effect of higher vehicle usage, which is characteristic of car sharing, and the implications on the battery’s state of health (SoH). In this paper, we forec...

Pricing of communication services becomes a necessity once these services form a commodity in a market. As visible today, the Internet has dramatically made a move into its commercial deployment. Therefore, e.g. , Internet access, bandwidth, or services need to be charged for. However, there exist a number of pricing models – from static ones to highly dynamic ones – which need to be evaluated ...

Gas bubbles generated by electrolysis reactions are shown to exhibit anomalous induced ac dipoles and dielectrophoretic behavior that cannot be described by classical Maxwell–Wagner theory. Normal charging and screening of conducting ionized gas in the gas-phase double layer are shown to render the bubble insulating at low ac field frequencies to affect negative dielectrophoresis. This screenin...