eCharge
4Drivers
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Years
Partners
European countries
Demonstration areas
About eCharge4Drivers
eCharge4Drivers works to improve the Electric-Vehicle charging experience in urban areas and on interurban corridors, making it more convenient for users to go green! The project will demonstrate additional convenient charging options within cities, a mobile charging service, charge points at lamp posts, networks of battery swapping stations for Light Electric Vehicles and a transportable charging station service to cover temporary needs.
eCharge4Drivers
Provides:
- An Electric Vehicle Charging Location Planning Tool to guarantee the optimum mix of charging options to cover users’ needs.
- Recommendations for legal and
regulatory harmonisation.
- Guidelines for investors and authorities for the sustainability of charging infrastructure and services.
Fostering the broad implementation of charging
infrastructure in Europe by:
Deploying charging infrastructure and other charging services in a sustainable and user-centric way.
Providing users with smart services, such as:
Low-power Direct Current charging stations (15-45 kW, supporting bi-directional energy flow up to 11 kW) for passenger vehicles and motorcycles.
Developing and demonstrating user-friendly charging stations and innovative charging solutions with:
Scalable stations that support both low and high-power charging (20-150 kW) for passenger vehicles and motorcycles, and high-power charging (> 150 kW) for passenger Electric Vehicles.
Low-power Direct Current charging stations (15-45 kW, supporting bi-directional energy flow up to 11 kW) for passenger vehicles and motorcycles.
Standardised Direct Current charging stations for L1e vehicles (1.5 kW).
Mobile charging services, charging points on lamp posts and standardised battery swapping stations for L1e vehicles.
eCharge4Drivers has a broad range of 10 demonstration sites to ensure that the input and feedback collected covers different geographical and cultural contexts, and to make sure that the interoperability of systems and solutions can be demonstrated in variable conditions and expanded to even more areas in the future.
The demonstration areas have been chosen to cover long and short distance trips in both urban and extra-urban environments, and to represent different European countries where there could be obstacles for the deployment of Electric Vehicle charging and where user experiences might be different. The demonstrations in metropolitan areas aim to provide alternative and complementary types of charging options to cover the needs of all citizens.
The nationwide demonstrations focus on providing user-friendly interoperable charging options and services to maximise the number of customers that can be served.
The project systems and services will therefore be replicable to other areas and will improve the charging experience in Europe and beyond.