UNIPI Team Leader: Prof. Federico Baronti, Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione
The sales of electric vehicles (EVs) are increasing but their drivers still encounter problems to find appropriate charging options. The vision of eCharge4Drivers is to focus on the users and substantially improve the EV charging experience within cities and on long trips, making it better than refuelling an ICE vehicle.
The work will start with wide surveys in 10 demonstration areas, to capture the a priori users’ perceptions and expectations as regards the various charging options and their mobility and parking habits. Based on the survey findings and after matching with the perspective of authorities, operators and service providers, the project will develop and demonstrate in 10 areas, including metropolitan areas and TEN T corridors, easy-to-use, scalable and modular, high- and low-power charging stations, low-power DC charging stations and components with improved connection efficiency and standardised stations for LEVs.
All stations will offer various direct payment methods and bigger user-friendly displays. The charging stations and all actors’ back-ends will support the ISO 15118 Plug & Charge feature and will enable the standardised transfer of enhanced information in the ecosystem, thus enabling the interoperability of communication and the provision of more sophisticated services to the users before, during and after the charging process, including smart charging services. The project will demonstrate additional convenient charging options within cities, a mobile charging service, charge points at lamp posts and networks of battery swapping stations for LEVs.
Using the knowledge generated, the project will propose an EV Charging Location Planning Tool to determine the optimum mix of charging options to cover the user needs, recommendations for legal and regulatory harmonisation and guidelines for investors and authorities for the sustainability of charging infrastructure and services.
Coordinator
INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS, Greece
Participants
- ABB BV, Netherlands
- AVESTA BATTERY & ENERGY ENGINEERING, Belgium
- BAYERISCHE MOTOREN WERKE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, Germany
- BUILDING FACILITY SERVICES PAROCHIYPIRESION ANONYMI ETAIREIA, Greece
- ROBERT BOSCH GMBH, Germany
- BARCELONA DE SERVEIS MUNICIPALS SA, Spain
- COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES, France
- CHARGERY GMBH, Germany
- CENTRO RICERCHE FIAT SCPA, Italy
- ELECTROMAPS SL, Spain
- EUROPEAN ROAD TRANSPORT TELEMATICSIMPLEMENTATION COORDINATION ORGANISATION - INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT SYSTEMS & SERVICES EUROPE, Belgium
- GRENOBLE-ALPES-METROPOLE METRO, France
- GREENPACK MOBILE ENERGY SOLUTIONS GMBH, Germany
- HUBJECT GMBH, Germany
- CONSORZIO INTERUNIVERSITARIO PER L'OTTIMIZZAZIONE E LA RICERCA OPERATIVA, Italy
- IDIADA AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGY SA, Spain
- MOSAIC FACTOR SL, Spain
- NEXXTLAB SA, Luxembourg
- SCUTUM LOGISTIC SL, Spain
- POLIS - PROMOTION OF OPERATIONAL LINKS WITH INTEGRATED SERVICES, ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONALE, Belgium
- POLITECNICO DI BARI, Italy
- POWERDALE, Belgium
- ROUTE220 SRL, Italy
- OPEN TECHNOLOGY SERVICES AE, Greece
- SMATRICS GMBH & CO KG, Austria
- UNIVERSITA DI PISA, Italy
- THE UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX, United Kingdom
- VERBUND AG, Austria
- VOLVO PERSONVAGNAR AB, Sweden
- VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL, Belgium
- ZORLU ENERJI ELEKTRIK URETIM AS, Turkey
Start date 1 June 2020
End date 31 May 2024
Project cost € 18 405 861,25
Project funding € 14 424 526,39
UNIPI quota € 155 000
Call title H2020-LC-GV-2019
Funding scheme IA - Innovation action
UNIPI role Partner
Project website: https://echarge4drivers.eu/