Introduction As you may know from a previous post I am interested in electric-vehicle (EV) trends and the transition to a more electrified transportation fleet. I wanted to do some mapping and spatial analysis, and I recently took the Creating Maps with R course by Charlie Joey Hadley, so I ...

Introduction Electricity generation is a major source of carbon emissions, and transitioning to cleaner and/or renewable sources of power generation is important to lowering greenhouse gas emissions and limiting the effects of climate change (as well as other benefits such as improving air quality). With the increase in electrification (...

Introduction Recently I’ve been interested in analyzing trends in electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, using data from the Alternative Fuels Data Center’s Alternative Fuel Stations database. In this first post I’ll go over retrieving the data via ...