Final Report
Consumers, utilities, businesses, and policy makers are increasingly looking to electricity as a transportation fuel. The transition to electric vehicles offers exciting opportunities and numerous benefits but with change come challenges. The transition will introduce new partnerships. It will place new requirements on the electric grid and the utilities that operate and control it. Utilities will need to provide more power for these mobile, unpredictable loads which will require new information and contro
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has long understood the value and importance of bringing stakeholders together to discuss emerging energy technologies, to explore opportunities, and to uncover potential challenges. The Office of Electricity’s Advanced Grid Research Division (AGR) and the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO) are partnering on an initiative to explore and discuss what the transition to electric vehicles (EVs) will mean from different stakeho