Plug & Charge Logo Launch at the Testival EUROPE 2022
June 29, 2022
Zielona Góra (Poland)
The Charging of EVs is crucial for the change to e-mobility and to facilitate market ramp up. One of the most convenient features for a smooth customer journey is Plug & Charge. The CharIN community has therefore developed a logo that can be used by companies that use and support Plug & Charge in their products. The logo is open to anyone who includes this feature in their product according to ISO 15118-2 or ISO 15118-20. To ensure widespread adoption and to give customers visibility, the feature was publicly launched today during the CharIN Testival in Poland on June 29, 2022.
Plug & Charge enables automated communication and billing processes between the electric vehicle and the charging station without the need for RFID cards, credit/debit cards or charging apps, while ensuring high IT security. It also enables automatic authentication and authorization at each charging station, so that the customer can experience a seamless and easy charging process.
CharIN has facilitated the standardization of e.g. ISO 15118 by fostering a result-oriented discourse among members in the Focus Group Communication, the Task Forces Cybersecurity and PKI as well as within the Plug & Charge Europe project. Since 2016, more than 200 members have shared crucial ideas in the groups, leading to this significant success. A thorough certification process will soon follow, as well relevant ISO training.
Many CharIN members have participated in the development and roll-out so far. All are united by the conviction that a seamless customer journey is hardly conceivable without this feature. It is a decisive step towards more customer-friendly and seamless interoperability and will thus contribute significantly to the decarbonization of mobility.
Do good and talk about it! To spread the word for Plug & Charge and to promote its implementation, the CharIN community has created a logo that can be used by companies using and supporting Plug & Charge with their respective products.
The Logo is open to every company implementing and validating this feature on ISO 15118-2 or ISO 15118-20 in their products. To ensure a broad implementation and to give the customer a proper visibility of functionality, the Plug & Charge Logo has been today publicly launched during the CharIN Testival in Poland on June 29th, 2022. This, however, is just the beginning. A thorough certification process will follow soon and will be accompanied with the relevant trainings.
Carina Pombar
Charging Interface Initiative e. V.
c/o innos GmbH
Kurfürstendamm 11
10719 Berlin, Germany
Phone: +49 1515 1858 974
E-Mail: info@charin.global
CharIN - Charging Interface Initiative e. V. is a non-profit organization with more than 280 members around the globe and open to any company worldwide being involved in the business around e-mobility. Under the CharIN umbrella, cross-industry stakeholders like automakers, charging station manufacturers, component suppliers, energy providers, grid operators and many others continue moving towards interoperable charging, where vehicles, chargers, and software systems work together and to make the user experience reliable, easy and smooth.
