Tim Slusser is Director of Smart Mobility Initiatives at NextEnergy Center, where he is helping to accelerate innovation and shape the future of mobility and smart cities through partnerships and thought leadership. His current focus is providing support for designing programming to educate consumers and communities on the benefits of EVs, project and contract management for hydrogen R&D, and project management and business model analysis for a 400 kW EVSE demonstration funded by the Department of Energy. Additionally, he's working on business models and demonstrations in the areas of autonomous vehicles, mobility-as-a-service platforms, vehicle-to-grid services, mobility and safety infrastructure, and big data.