Understanding Complexity in Charging Infrastructure through the Lens of Social Supply–Demand Systems

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The author discusses the scientific methods of modeling electric vehicles systems and provides some useful references for the development of the electric vehicle industry. However, I think some details should be paid more attentions and further improved in this paper. Specific comments are given below.

1. In the ‘Introduction’, the author simply illustrates the problem to be solved in this paper. It would be better if the author could clearly elaborate the motivation, main work and contribution of the article.
2. Labels such as ‘1.2’, ‘1.3’, ‘1.4.1’ and ‘1.5’ appear in the article, but there is no corresponding section. Please check and correct them carefully.
3. I wonder if what the author is proposing is just a conceptual framework? No specific mathematical model? I think it would be better if the complex systems of electric vehicles charging could be described vividly in combination with figures.
4. The meaning of some symbols needs to be explained, such as “” on page 4. Please check and correct them carefully.

      5. Pay attention to the format of the references. 

Author Response

We have put all responses in a word document since we added illustrations which could not be uploaded in the system.

We thank the reviewer for the valuable comments which have led to a significant improvement of the paper. 

 

 

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Reviewer 2 Report

The general idea of the article seems interesting to me but there are several issues especially regarding the presentation style and proof of theoretical aspects mentioned. 

1. The paper is way too long, 28 pages with mostly text with a very limited number of figures and tables. There is a lot of background information, which I think is not required. Authors can just refer to relevant literature and highlight only the core ideas necessary to understand this paper.
2. There are several aspects mentioned and a model is also developed but there is no result/validation for those.
3. For me, it is really hard to grasp how to verify what the authors are suggesting/proposing to model charging infrastructure as a complex system.

Author Response

We have put the response to reviewer 2 in a word document since it contains illustrations. We thank the reviewer for its valuable comments. Accordingly, the length of the paper has been decreased, illustrations were added and the proposed conceptual model has been made more clear. 

please see the attachment for the response. 

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

Paper can be accepted for publication.

Reviewer 2 Report

Thank you for the revision. I have no more comments.