"We all love the concept of electric vehicles but the complexities of delivering the vision make us wonder if a book on the subject would be a fantasy or science fiction. Happily this book is full of practical detail and real world experience of pioneering cities that bring the vision to life. It is a gripping read and, like a good novel, is full of great stories and ideas."
— Fiona Woolf, Lord Mayor of the City of London in 2013–14
About the Book
A decade after the launch of the contemporary global electric vehicle (EV) market, most cities are ill-prepared for the tidal wave of change that will soon reach them as EV adoption rates accelerate. Some cities, and the leaders who shape them, are meeting and even leading demand for EV infrastructure. This book aggregates deep, groundbreaking research in the areas of urban EV deployment for city managers, private developers, urban planners, and utilities who want to understand and lead change.
About the Editors
- Peter Fox-Penner, Ph.D. Dr. Fox-Penner is director of the Institute for Sustainable Energy (ISE) at Boston University (BU). He is also professor of the practice at BU’s Questrom School of Business. His research and writing focuses on electric power strategy, regulation, and governance; energy and climate policy; and the relationships between public and private economic activity, including corporate social responsibility. He is the author of Smart Power (2010), a book widely credited with foreshadowing the transformation of the power industry. Smart Power is now used and cited all over the world, as are other books in this area written by Fox-Penner. He also teaches courses on sustainable energy and electric power at the Questrom School of Business. The work of the BU Institute for Sustainable Energy and Peter’s projects through the Institute can be viewed there. In addition, since 2014 he has been a senior policy scholar at the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy. From 1994 to 1996, Peter was principal deputy assistant secretary at the US Department of Energy’s Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy unit (EERE) and a senior advisor in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP).
- Z. Justin Ren, PhD. Z. Justin Ren is an associate professor of business administration at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business, and a faculty researcher at the Boston University Institute of Sustainable Energy (ISE). He was also a research affiliate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management (2009–2014). Professor Ren’s current research focuses on Electric Vehicles (EV) and infrastructure for clean energy transition.
- David O. Jermain. Mr. Jermain is a senior research scientist and senior fellow at Boston University’s Institute for Sustainable Energy (ISE). Also, he is an adjunct professor at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business. For nearly 40 years, he has held senior energy sector executive positions and served in several consulting capacities for large and small consultancies as well as firms he has founded. He served as head of strategic planning for Pacific Power & Light where he helped drive execution of the first major utility merger in the United States in fifty years.
