Efficient Online Station Assignment for EV Battery Swapping

This paper investigates the online station assignment for (commercial) electric vehicles (EVs) that make battery swapping requests to a central operator, with the aim of minimizing cost to EVs and congestion at service stations. Inspired by a polynomial-time solvable offline solution via a bipartite matching approach, we develop an efficient online station assignment algorithm that provably achieves a tight (optimal) competitive ratio under mild conditions.