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These managed home charging programs are either active, in which the utility continuously controls the charging while the vehicle is plugged in, or passive, in which the participants decide when to charge based on preannounced low-rate episodes. We study jointly designing and executing these active and passive programs. We present a program-design model, which produces a menu of the charging programs, tailored for each driver type, and a load-management model, which dynamically manages the load supply to each individual participant. The load-management model consists of a large number of nonhomogeneous participants, and it is a large-scale mixed-integer nonlinear stochastic problem. We present an effective approximation method, conduct thorough theoretical and numerical analyses of our approximation, and provide worst-case bounds for its error components. Our methodology provides detailed insights on the amount and timing of the improvements achievable in cost and demand variability by offering managed home charging programs, and by customizing the passive programs. It also offers detailed insights on the significance of the tradeoff between cost and demand variability. We find promoting a culture of charging electric vehicles every night may significantly increase utilities\u2019 total cost if passive programs have high participation levels.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>This paper was accepted by Jeannette Song, operations management.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>Supplemental Material: The online appendix and data files are available at https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1287\/mnsc.2023.00850 .<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1287\/mnsc.2023.00850","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,4,23]],"date-time":"2025-04-23T11:55:53Z","timestamp":1745409353000},"page":"10205-10224","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Utilities\u2019 Managed Home Charging Programs for Electric Vehicles"],"prefix":"10.1287","volume":"71","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2434-1868","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ali","family":"Fattahi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21202"}]}],"member":"109","reference":[{"key":"B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1287\/mnsc.2021.4278"},{"key":"B2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Agrawal V, Bellos I, Ren H (2022) The role of dealer demonstration in the adoption of electric vehicles. 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