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ArticleNature communications2025

Cascading marginal emissions signals for green charging with growing electric vehicle adoption.

Sonia Martin, Siobhan Powell, Ram Rajagopal

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Sonia MartinDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. soniamartin@stanford.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1663-5049
Siobhan PowellDepartment of Management, Technology and Economics, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2928-840X
Ram RajagopalDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4961-9539

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Shifting electric vehicle charging to use cleaner electricity can reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Grid emissions factors can inform when to shift demand, but key assumptions behind existing emissions factor methods fail for today's grids and electric vehicle adoption levels. We combine real charging data with a Western U.S. grid model to test these methods under increasing electric vehicle adoption. We find that following existing average and marginal emissions factor methods to manage charging can inadvertently increase grid emissions when emissions factor signals are noisy, too many electric vehicles follow the same signal, or when high-emitting generators respond. We instead propose an alternative Cascading marginal emissions factor strategy that manages charging in smaller groups. We show that the Cascading strategy reduces added emissions by 10-28% across grid scenarios for at least 2 million electric vehicles. Our research reveals how demand response methods must change to reduce emissions and support the grid transition under wider electric vehicle adoption.

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PMCPMC12630845

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