Excellent tool but is there some documentation ?

[sharabhshukla]

what defines a charging events ? like a car driving in to charge, it charges for some time and then leaves, is that a charging event ? just making sure I got that correct

what does num_charging_events represent, are they counted over the entire simulation horizon or per day ?
Like if num_charging_events is set to 1000, 1000 charging events are generated every hour every day or every month or the entire simulation period ?

[izzyhd]

A charging event represents the event of a vehicle charging. It is described in its:

• arrival time: Time the vehicle arrives at the infrastructure.
• parking time: The time the car parks at the infrastructure.
• SOC: the state of charge at arrival to the charging infrastructure.

Charging events are generated based on distributions or based on real measured charging events.
the number of charging events represents the number of occurrences over a week.

for some examples have a look at the jupyter notebooks under examples

[19MM97]

Just to clarify a bit further. A charging event does not necessarily have to charge. In case the all spots are used and there is no waiting queue the arriving vehicle can not be served and hence the vehicle is leaving the infrastructure again, without being considered in the simulation anymore.
So you could say a charging event is an arriving vehicle at the infrastructure, that wants to charge if possible.

[sharabhshukla]

Thanks, for the answer. I now have a better view after going through some other notebooks, in the repo. Certainly an interesting tool.