New Electric Vehicle Report Compares Charging in World’s Two Largest EV Markets

ISE’s premier research collaboration with Columbia University’s Center for Global Energy Policy (CGEP) and China’s Global Energy Infrastructure and Development Cooperative Organization (GEIDCO) was center stage this week in a panel session at the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit (BNEF).

As the collaboration focuses on Chinese and U.S. EV infrastructure policies and clean energy transition pathways, the new study “Electric Vehicle Charging in China and the United States” kicked off the panel discussion comparing policies, technologies, and business models in the world’s two largest electric vehicle markets. How are they similar? How do they differ? What can the two countries, as well as companies and investors in reach, learn from each other?

Peter Fox-Penner, ISE Director, and Professor David Sandalow, Inaugural Fellow at CGEP who co-authored the EV charging study with colleague Anders Hove, were joined by distinguished experts that included Feng An, Founder and Executive Director of ICET; Yuan Ren, U.S. Representative of China State Grid; and Cathy Zoi, the CEO of EVgo.

Fox-Penner also highlighted the work that ISE is doing to help address emerging operational challenges facing cities as EV adoption continues, including the newly released research, Carbon Free Boston.

Coming in spring 2019: look for the ISE/CGEP book, Melting the ICE: Lessons from China and the West in the Transition from the Internal Combustion Engine to Electric Vehicles.

The work on EV by both institutions was made possible by a generous grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies. The EV session at the BNEF summit was sponsored by GEIDCO and Bloomberg Philanthropies.