Background

Today more and more people are choosing to buy a electric vehicle for a variety of reasons, such as reduced tailpipe emissions, government incentives, embeded high technology. While the biggest problem with EV is finding charging stations when traveling. The difference between EV and gasoline car is that a gasoline car can go to every gas station and fill up in a very short time. However, for EV, the first problem is location based accessibility to charging stations, many remote areas do not have charging stations. And then there are several types of charging connectors, they may not fit the user's EV outlet. Moreover, there are regular charging stations, fast-charging charging stations and brand's own flash-charging stations, which can greatly affect the speed of charging. Therefore, I would like to use the EV charging api to show the distribution of charging stations to provide some help for everyone when traveling outside. In addition, specifically, California signed this ban on buying gasoline cars to a certain extent to promote people to pay attention to the environment and buy EV; however, in order to achieve this goal, the government needs to build more charging stations, including some remote places, so as to provide people with a reliable travel experience.

My Design

Based on that, I create this EV charging distribution map of California, I only selected few cities, while you already can see the quantity and quality difference of the charging stations between these cities. There is still a long way to go in order to create a EV environment world.

Chosen API: Open Charge Map

Below is the OCM embeded web module.

Reflection

1: I didn't really use that data file from this API, since the service paprameter for calling the specific data results didn't include city search. So I couldn't get the data set for the city that I want to search. Check this link to see. But I did go through the entire process of how to link an API into p5js and load the .json file.

2: I also found another API that Gaode Map provided, you could click HERE to check or click on the p-10 future on the left navigation bar. As you can see that this page creates a 3D live traffic heat map, I'm wondering that if I can make a 3D heat map for EV charging stations in the future, which is more vivid and clearly and smartly translates the data.