Russell Schmidt, vice president of digital products
at InCharge, commended Wood’s program, noting it was built on top of the company’s InControl API, which allows Wood to dynamically change charging session length based on the bus route, weather, charger charac- teristics and other inputs, without needing any human intervention. He said Wood and STA have been engaged with InCharge from the start. “Partners like STA that were early adopters deserve a
lot of credit for pushing the industry well past its infancy stage,” Schmidt said. “By being level-headed and focused on the data, Cameron has been instrumental in getting the bus manufacturers and charging partners like In- Charge to work closely together to solve the technical challenges we’ve run into along the way. In the end, ev- eryone benefits from this kind of collaboration, because we are making EV operations boring and predictable.” He added that Wood is detail-oriented and “brilliant.” “Just the other day he sent a friendly email providing
us data that indicated we needed to fine tune a specific power sharing feature,” Schmidt added. “In this case, an energy balancing algorithm was providing one of STA’s chargers a few kW less than one would expect. I hold InCharge’s engineering team in high regard, so catching this sort of thing is impressive and makes us all so much better in the long run.” Wood added there are already future ideas for how to
continue to push the program to further EV charging. “Cameron is really good at integrating systems,” Lane said. “He is taking information from a variety of sourc- es and using it to create a new way of operating. He is looking ahead, already thinking ahead about what pro- gramming improvements he will make to this system. We have some additional goals for metrics we want to start looking at this year, and, and what data we will start looking at next. And his work shows that you don’t need to be flashy or have a huge team to make a noticeable impact.” ●
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