Grid-Connected Electric Vehicles: Charging and Management
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "E: Electric Vehicles".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 July 2025 | Viewed by 10
Special Issue Editors
Interests: optimal operation of power systems; power markets; renewable energy; flexible distribution networks; electric vehicles
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Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, the ownership of electric vehicles (EVs) has been increasing year by year, and the utilization of EVs has become an inevitable trend in green transportation. On one hand, the large-scale development of EVs has brought about significant impacts on the security and economic operation of the power system. The random charging behavior of EVs will significantly alter the spatiotemporal distribution characteristics of the load, and the "power surge" phenomenon under high simultaneous rates poses severe challenges to the safe and economic operation of urban power grids. On the other hand, EVs have the characteristics of controllable load and mobile energy storage for the power system. If guided, they can release a massive amount of distributed energy storage resources with low cost, large capacity, and strong flexibility, which can help to promote the clean transformation of energy production, distribution, and consumption methods, as well as achieve high-quality collaborative development of power and transportation.
This Special Issue will explore the difficulties and key issues in the interaction between large-scale EVs and smart grids and look toward future development directions.
Topics of interest for publication include but are not limited to the following:
- Modeling and prediction technologies for EV charging demand;
- Optimization and control technologies for charging facility configuration in residential areas;
- Operation and control technologies for public charging stations;
- Coordinated optimization control technology of EV clusters and distributed new energy generation;
- Optimization decision-making methods for EV charging aggregators participating in the spot electricity market and auxiliary service markets;
- Supply–demand relationship and multi-agent profit models in EV–grid interaction;
Orderly charging and discharging incentive mechanisms, market models, charging and swapping guidance strategies, and operation technologies for EVs.
Dr. Xu Wang
Dr. Jingzhe Hu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- electric vehicles
- smart grid
- charging strategies
- renewable energy
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