eCharge4Drivers Final Event: Solutions for Easy EV Charging



eCharge4Drivers Final Event: Solutions for Easy EV Charging
7 November 2024 - Barcelona, Spain

After four years, the eCharge4Drivers project is nearing its conclusion. We are hosting our Final Event, which will be held in Barcelona on 7 November 2024. This will be back-to-back with the 2024 editions of the Tomorrow.Mobility World Congress and the SmartCity Expo World Congress, so if you are attending these events, we invite you to take the opportunity and join us!

Since 2020, our project partners have been working to revolutionise the Electric Vehicle (EV) charging landscape with innovative, user-friendly solutions and services. These cutting-edge technologies have been tested across 10 demonstration sites in urban areas and interurban corridors, ensuring interoperability and user acceptance.

This is your opportunity to explore the project’s key achievements and outcomes and gain valuable insights into the future of EV charging. The event will feature a full-day conference hosted at Barcelona City Council (240 Avinguda Diagonal).

Draft agenda:

9:00 Registration & Welcome coffee

9:30 Opening by Jaume Roca Guitart (B:SM)

9:35 Welcome by Evangelos Karfopoulos (ICCS)

9:45 The eCharge4Drivers vision and methodology – Evangelos Karfopoulos (ICCS)

10:00 The eCharge4Drivers solutions to enhance the electromobility users experience

• Battery as a Service: A novel business model to boost the usage of LEVs (Josep Marti Suñer,SILENCE)
• Improving user accessibility to public charging network: Enhanced routing and booking service (Mauro Dell’Amico, ICOOR)
• Intuitive smart charging services for improving user charging experience (Sothun Hing, CEA)
• Planning tool for sustainable charging network development (Christoph Emde, Nexxtlab)

11:15 Coffee break

11:30 eCharge4Drivers demonstrations and impact

• The eCharge4Drivers demonstrations – Deployment challenges and lessons learned (Maria Pia Fanti, POLIBA)
• Plug & Charge: Deployment & interoperability challenges of cardless charging (Daniel Quiles Martínez, IDIADA)
• Impact on users’ experience: Findings from the eCharge4Drivers user surveys (Gabriela Barrera, VUB)
• Public views on electric vehicle charging: a thematic analysis (Peter Fussey & and Colin Ashby, UoS)

12:45 – 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 Needs for future policy and regulatory actions

The eCharge4Drivers recommendations and guidelines towards sustainable charging investments and user-friendly electromobility (Andrew Winder, ERTICO)

14:15: Roundtable Discussion

Moderator: Evangelos Karfopoulos (ICCS)

• eCharge4Drivers findings – Angel Lopez (BCN) and Andrew Winder (ERTICO)
• USER-CHI findings –  Antonio Marqués (ETRA)
• INCIT-EV findings – Miguel Zarzuela (CIRCE)
• TIPS4PED findings – Laura Bordo (RINA)

15:30 Conclusions

15:45 – 17:00* Networking Drinks

*[16:00 – 16:30 – Demo Site Visit (optional)]

For any questions, please contact:

Pedro Gomes - PGomes@polisnetwork.eu
Marina Martin Vilches - MMartin@polisnetwork.eu
Alexia Collignon -  ACollignon@polisnetwork.eu