EVRoaming Foundation

Back from Korea where the Electric Vehicle Symposium 37 has taken place! On behalf of the EVRoaming Foundation, I joined EVS37 with the goal to discuss and support open roaming for EV charging with companies and governments in Asia-Pacific. We also had a contribution for the academic programme, focusing on our work for optimizing tariff structures and improving price transparency (let me know if you are interested). First of all: the hospitality was absolutely fantastic. A very well organized event, with high standards and an interesting programme. And as for the Korean culture: a great country, helpful people, very safe (even in 25M Seoul!) and very well organized. Recommended! As for eMobility development: Korea already has 550k BEV on the road, with some 226k publicly accessible chargers. However, most of the BEV are commercial fleets, little private uptake. Always the question: is that an issue? do we really want a lot of private vehicles in a metropolitan area such as Seoul? or better: rely on (excellent) electric public transport and electric taxis.... Also, little interaction between CPO's and few developments regarding eMSP's. There is a lot to be gained here, as this country with 50M people will further grow, especially with Korean Hyundai Motor Company (현대자동차) and Kia Worldwide as leading BEV manufacturers. We have seen this in other Asian countries as well (Thailand, Malaysia, Japan): a good uptake in BEV, but limited development of an overarching market model and diverse. business models for operators and service providers beyond kWh sales. The potential is great in Asia, as is the technical expertise and know-how. With the EVRoaming Foundation we aim to support this development. With the open roaming protocol #OCPI as a fundament for an open market for EV charging. And with our working groups, community and expertise, to add knowledge and insights to the discussion. We would love to see more Asia-Pacific companies join the Foundation, be part of this community and support EV growth! Thanks to Laurens Wiersma for joining as the regional manager for the EVRoaming Foundation from Bali; it will give us the opportunity to be present at regional events and organize workshops. Thanks to all the current (and future!) EVRoaming members for the fruitful discussions! Chantakorn David Gridwitchayayarkarn (EVAT Thailand) Paweł Małkowiak (Solidstudio), yoon-chang choi (KTC), Naoki Okawa and Yuya Okada (Plugo Japan), Jean-Marc Rives and Eric Plaquet (Gireve), Ted Dongyeol Shin and Youngman Cho (EVAR), Björn Albertsson (Metergram) and many others! Finally: a great thanks to Netherlands Enterprise Agency to have us at the Holland Pavilion! And PS: Yes we did do the Karaoke, and it was fantastic 😍, and we spent a few days afterwards to enjoy this beautiful country!

The EVRoaming Foundation with the OCPI Protocol - Open Charge Point Interface goes Asia and will be present at next weeks @EVS37Korea. Read all about it in our latest News Flash: https://lnkd.in/d4ni8-_i You can catch up with our new Asia representative Laurens Wiersma, or chairman Roland Ferwerda, or boardmember Jean-Marc Rives from Gireve.

Starting Logistics WG and Heavy Duty Booking Task Group! #Logistics is becoming an important market in the Electric Vehicle #charging eco-system. Heavy Duty Vehicles will play a crucial role in the transition towards sustainable transport. Many Heavy Duty Vehicle manufactures already have electric vehicles that require the right available, flexible and usable charging infrastructure. The EVRoaming Foundation is starting a Logistics Work Group with a Heavy Duty Booking Task Group. This way we will contribute to a better accessible market and support the energy transition. In the next period the business and use cases will be defined for how a booking system for HDV should work, supporting open standards between systems. This is done together with market parties that joined already the EVRoaming Foundation as Full Contributor. If you are interested to join and are committed to support this market, join the EVRoaming Foundation. You can find more information on our website https://lnkd.in/ds6djQpD including the goals and requested commitment. You can also contact us directly. 

Happy to finally release the review version of @OCPI 3.0! After 3 years of hard work. Thanks everyone who participated so far and looking forward to continue with that.

You can now connect your (remote) payment terminal for direct payment to your charge station using the OCPI Protocol - Open Charge Point Interface. Today we publish the OCPI Direct Payment module that can work together with OCPI v2.2.1. Download it via: https://lnkd.in/dem8J9Mj

How to recognize who is the real operator of a charging station. The POI Work Group from eViolin wrote a nice guidance document about it. OCPI Protocol - Open Charge Point Interface is already supporting this.

Just before the end of 2023, the EVRoaming foundation released the White paper about "How to deal with tariffs". https://lnkd.in/dMkh5gEj Unfortunately, it is often still complex, not understandable, not possible to exchange via protocols and not verifiable afterwards on CDR or invoice. Recent benchmark study showed that price transparency received a score 6.0 on scale of 1-10. It even went backward compared to two years ago. Together with many contributors of the EVRoaming foundation, we worked hard to describe the issues and come with recommendations how to improve it and use tariffs in a correct way. Yes, you can still use dynamic tariffs and flexible tariffs, but do it in a correct way. The main recommendation is maybe to sit more often on the EV driver seat; does your neighbor understand it, or your parents? If that is a clear "yes", we already won a lot.

We had an excellent 2-day working session about the future of EV Roaming and how to capture this in our new version OCPI Protocol - Open Charge Point Interface 3.0. Thanks to Gireve for hosting us, thanks to all our contributors for working on this, and last but not least: our director Michel Bayings coordinating the event, together with Reinier Lamers from ihomer. It demonstrates again our strong, community-driven approach to delivering the best roaming support!

OCPI Protocol - Open Charge Point Interface 3.0 is on the way and first draft version is almost ready. Last few days contributors of the EVRoaming foundation from all over the world, worked hard to discuss the final bits and bytes. Thanks to all participants. And apologies for the contributors that could not join, next time we do our best that everyone can join. Do you also want to join? Become a contributor of the EVRoaming Foundation. Thanks Gireve for hosting and Reinier Lamers for his great work as technical editor of OCPI. And thanks the contributors for the great participation: ihomer, Fastned, SMATRICS, Laborelec, stations-e, Octopus Energy, S44, Plugsurfing, GO ELECTRA, Be:Mo, evway by Route220srl SB, GreenFlux, FLO EV Charging, @Switch-ev, ChargePoint, Optimile, Monta, TandemDrive, Digital Charging Solutions, Department for Transport (DfT), United Kingdom, Emobility Consulting France / Netherlands

Tomorrow we have our 2nd OCPI Protocol - Open Charge Point Interface F2F meeting at Gireve. Together with our contributors we will discuss OCPI 3.0, which is almost ready for first release. This version contains a lot of improvements, many of them will already be usable in combination current version 2.2.1. We look forward to a great event. Do you want to join next year and participate in the developments of OCPI, test tools, and the other activities of EVRoaming Foundation? Feel free to join us. We look forward to a great event and are ready for more great events next year.