In 2022, the SAE Metropolitan Section Fellowship was established to provide financial assistance to students enrolled in the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University who have an interest in Electric Vehicle infrastructure issues.
Thanks to the dedicated efforts of academic and financial assistance leaders at Rutgers (Janet Cole and Stephen Weston in particular), the Fellowship is off to a strong start. Max Toth, a 2nd year candidate for a Master’s degree in City and Regional Planning at the Bloustein School at Rutgers will be receiving the first in a series of cash scholarship awards that the SAE Met Section has pledged to Rutgers honoring the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center at the Bloustein School over the next several years.

Max will be the speaker at this Thursday’s SAE Met Section “Brown Bag Lunch” Zoom Webinar and I’d like to extend a personal invitation to all of you to join to learn about his research on electric vehicle charging infrastructures and some of its implications for the future of grid resilience, transportation and the environment.

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Vehicles are already a substantial end-use of our energy systems, and the shift from fossil fuels to electricity brings with it many opportunities and challenges for both electricity distributors and the automotive industry. To meet carbon reduction goals may require tighter integration between the electricity production system and vehicles, which can be transformed from end-use to active participant in the system using bidirectional charging with known as V2G (vehicle-to-grid) or V2X (vehicle-to-many: buildings, homes, grid, emergency shelters, etc.). Electric school buses have long represented an ideal test case for exploring the formal integration of vehicle batteries into the grid, as fixed-route, limited-schedule fleet vehicles with large battery requirements. Max will trace some key moments of public policy interventions which led to increased models of electric school buses with onboard bidirectional charging, and pilot programs currently underway with utilities for V2G applications. He will also look at the challenge and promise of V2G from the grid management perspective. We will examine the implications for passenger cars, where pilots are underway both for managed fleets and for private cars, and key elements of technology enabling the merger of our electric grid and transportation network. Together we can explore the challenges and opportunities of vehicle electrification for the energy and transportation systems of the future.

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