Cooperative Agreement DEEE0010626

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports collaborative research to study the placement of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations and their broader impacts on community mobility, business resilience, and social equity. The $150,271 award to Northeastern University aims to develop an optimization and visualization platform to help policymakers and businesses evaluate EV charging station...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $2,296,542 Cooperative Agreement to Evgo Services LLC to develop low-cost tools for enabling third-party interoperability testing for electric vehicles (EVs) and electric vehicle service equipment (EVSE) with the ISO-15118 plug and charge standard. The project also aims to develop conformance testing to define current and future iterations of the standard to promote widespread interoperability and...

This $500,000 Project Grant awarded by the Federal Highway Administration (CFDA 20.200 - Highway Research and Development Program) will enable the Metropolitan Mayors Caucus, a non-profit organization based in Chicago, Illinois, to implement the Municipal EV Readiness Program. The program will guide at least 30 municipalities in the metropolitan Chicago area to become "EV ready" by facilitating the safe and rapid deployment of electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure, promoting...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy has awarded a $3,552,522 Cooperative Agreement under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) program to the Central Pines Regional Council, also known as the North Carolina Association of Regional Councils of Government. The objective of this 1-year project is to assess the performance, reliability, usability, and safety of AC Level 2 and DC Fast Charging (DCFC) stations across all 50 states, the...

This $449,943 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a collaborative research project titled "Planning for Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure - Strengthening American Infrastructure (SAI)." The project, led by New York University (NYU), aims to understand the broader social and economic impacts of electric vehicle charging station (EVCS) placement on community mobility, social...

This Project Grant award of $225,000.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) aims to establish a collaborative ecosystem to bolster the resilience of the electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure in the United States. The key products and services to be delivered under this award include: Developing proactive methodologies to identify and analyze internet-connected EV management systems (EVMS) and their...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $200,000 to The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) to develop proactive methodologies for identifying and analyzing vulnerabilities in internet-connected electric vehicle (EV) charging management systems. The key objectives are to: Employ advanced fingerprinting techniques, including web scraping, unsupervised learning, and pattern...

Imagen Energy LLC was awarded an $11.7 million cooperative agreement from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) to develop products that will accelerate electric vehicle charging infrastructure deployment. Under the award titled "CHARGED: Commercialization of Highly Accelerated Reliable Grid-Networked Energy Delivery," Imagen Energy will produce solutions to improve space utilization, reduce installation costs, and increase charging efficiency...

This $199,933 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports research to develop an interaction-aware management framework to improve the efficiency and sustainability of electric vehicle (EV) transportation systems and power grids. The key components of the project include: A multi-agent reinforcement learning control model for power systems to dynamically adjust electricity prices and...

This Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy under the Conservation Research and Development program (CFDA 81.086), seeks to develop frameworks, metrics, and tools to quantify the resilience of electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure and potential mitigation strategies for the state of Colorado. The $1,296,937 award to Colorado State University will create an EV charging infrastructure resiliency plan for...