Partners

29 Partners

The Consortium comprises cutting-edge European e-mobility actors including Distribution System Operators (DSOs), aggregators, public authorities, and e-mobility service providers. It is led by ElaadNL, one of the world’s leading knowledge and innovation centres in the field of smart charging and charging infrastructure, with a global reputation as leading advocate for open protocols in electric mobility. The twenty-nine partners include:

OEMs

ABB e-Mobility is a global leader in EV charging technology with the highest uptime and largest installed base of DC fast chargers in the market. Using critical cloud-based connectivity, they remotely diagnose, cure infrastructure and update in-house developed software. With over 13 years of experience in DC fast charging and commercial products, they have an unparalleled reach with sales of more than 600,000 electric vehicle chargers across more than 88 markets, including over 30,000 fast chargers.

Within SCALE, ABB will develop and provide charging hardware with V2G / V2X features, and ensure that they can be controlled by the Enervalis platform. This will maximize their benefits by adapting energy flows to or from vehicle batteries to the local situation with regards to grid capacity, available local power production and other power consumption.

Renault is fully committed to the development of large-scale electric mobility, aiming to widen its electric mobility offer, both in terms of vehicles and services. Renault’s electric vehicles represent nearly 15% of all 100%-electric vehicles sold in Europe in 2021, while, on a global scale, more than 490,000 electric vehicles have already been sold by the group.

Renault’s mission in SCALE is to alleviate the barriers for uptake and deployment of SCALE solutions through liaising with regulators, standardisation bodies, and regulators. Moreover, Renault actively participates in the hard- and software design requirements for the smart charging and V2X architecture. Renault also contributes to the development of smart charging and V2X technologies and solutions, as well as to the simulation of mass deployment and standardisation of smart charging and V2X.

POLESTAR is a Swedish automotive brand founded in 1996 and acquired in 2015 by Volvo. The brand is showing its commitment to creating cutting-edge electric cars. Indeed, while Polestar 1 is a plug-in hybrid and limited production vehicle, Polestar 2 is the Volvo Car Group’s first mass-produced, electric vehicle. Furthermore, the brand is also committed to implementing open standards for smart charging and V2X in their vehicles and introducing them as standard cars in the coming years, thus supporting interoperability between countries and aligning TSO platforms with DSO protocols.

In SCALE, Polestar will be part of the development of Smart Charging and V2X Technologies and Solutions to drive interoperability.

Hyundai Motor is developing Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) technology to further develop the usability of renewable energy sources and reduce strain on local electricity networks. At IAA Mobility 2021, Hyundai announced its commitment to achieving carbon neutrality in its products and global operations by 2045. By 2035, the company aims to have a fleet of entirely zero-emission vehicles in Europe. One pillar of the company’s strategy is developing cleaner energy solutions and technologies, including V2G.

Within SCALE, Hyundai NL will support a Use Case in Utrecht on bi-directional ecosystem via combined V2G service from large car sharing program, as well as other elements of the development of Smart Charging and V2X Technologies and Solutions in the project.

Sono Motors is on a pioneering mission to accelerate the revolution of mobility by making every vehicle solar. Sono Motors’ disruptive solar technology has been engineered to be seamlessly integrated into a variety of vehicle architectures — including buses, trucks, trailers, and more — to extend range, reduce fuel costs as well as the impact of CO2 emissions, paving the way for climate-friendly mobility. The Company’s trailblazing vehicle, the Sion, will be the world’s first affordable solar electric vehicle (SEV) for the masses. It has amassed more than 18,000 reservations with advance payments for the Sion.

Sono Motors will be involved in Use Cases in the Greater Munich Area, as part of the smart home charging (Vehicle to Home) Cluster, as well as the development of Smart Charging and V2X Technologies and Solutions.

VDL ETS is part of the VDL Group (an international industrial company focused on the development, production and sales of semi-manufactured products, buses & coaches and finished products and the assembly of cars). They focus on research, development and testing of new possibilities, in particular for transport-related activities of VDL companies. Their goal is to develop environmentally-friendly and innovative hardware and software solutions in the field of electric transport (E-mobility), battery technology, charging infrastructure, energy storage, hydrogen applications, automated guided vehicles (AGVs), guidance and navigation technology.

Within SCALE, VDL will support the smart charging and V2X use case pilots and business case development and will be involved directly in two use cases in Eindhoven, as part of the Vehicle to Depot Cluster. VDL is also involved in a range of other work packages.

E-mobility fleet & software

Since 2011, We Drive Solar started installing solar power plants on lots of school roofs in the Utrecht Region. We Drive Solar also tested interconnecting these to form one of the first private grids in the country. This led to involvement in multiple innovation projects. We Drive Solar has realized several international firsts in the field of solar- and bidirectional charging.

In SCALE, We Drive Solar aims to build the largest deployment of bidirectional charging in the world.

Current SmartCharge is a supplier-independent charging point management system (CPMS) for electric vehicles (EVs). The system offers a complete overview of its charging infrastructure, with predictability and complete control of each charging point. They supply corporate customers with a platform that brings together installers, operators, service providers, electric vehicle drivers and companies with an all-in-one solution for charging point management.

In the SCALE project, the role of Current SmartCharge will be to integrate all separate data sources into one central platform. An interface will be provided to get a detailed overview of the data and pull it into its required aggregation.

Emobility Solutions services include the design, installation and operation of renewable energy systems, smart charging networks and storage systems. Since 2014, Emobility Solutions has successfully completed over 2 000 service jobs in 14 European countries. The first zero emission industrial project including mobility energy needs was completed in 2016. The company is involved in installation and operation of several HPC charging parks across Europe since 2017. Besides CPO activities Emobility Solutions also offer EMSP services from 2021.

Emobility Solutions develops mobile EVSE testing and certification solutions. In the SCALE project, it develops and demonstrates futureproof smart charging and V2G solutions in industrial and commercial use cases.

GoodMoovs is an international platform for shared e-mobility and energy which focuses on optimizing user-experiences and accelerate the energy transition. To achieve these goals, GoodMoovs is constantly developing its white-label portal and app to support partners and carsharing operators with the best software and hardware solutions. In addition, it supports its clients and partners in growing the market share of shared e-cars and e-bikes for mobility and energy management purposes.

In SCALE, GoodMoovs contributes to the development of a V2X system architecture as well as the associated operational implementation of the V2G ecosystem together with partners. This includes the development of an additional revenue model for shared fleet operators by offering their aggregated battery capacity to store renewable energy.

The Enervalis platform is the backbone to multiple smart microgrids. They enable and optimize hundreds of homes and buildings, and thousands of Electric Vehicle (EV) charge stations to maximize green charging. Their staff consists of highly skilled international energy experts building an energy-efficient and healthier world. They work closely together with the EV teams within ABB to realize their smart charging proposition.

Within SCALE, Enervalis will be supporting 6 Use Cases to achieve their smart charging and V2X pilots and business case developments, as well as lead WP2 on the “Development of Smart Charging and V2X Technologies and Solutions”.

DBH Serviced offices are fully furnished and equipped offices, they can be rented in a flexible way – flexible in space (rent the number of workstations exactly fit to client headcount) and flexible in time (rent it exactly fit to client’s project duration). Their services include Flexible workspace, Meeting Room, Virtual office, Corporate Spaces. 12.000 m2 flexible office space in Budapest, Debrecen, and Bucharest.

In SCALE, their main tasks within the project are testing and validating approaches and ideas, prototyping and demonstration, meaning a Station-based Serviced Office B2B car-sharing with demand side management (Smart charging EVs + Buidling energy demand).

Reasearch & knowledge institutes

Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg conducts research and education in technology at a high international level, promoting knowledge and technical solutions for a sustainable world. Researchers at Chalmers have developed a unique integrated motor drive and battery charger for electric vehicles that manages to shorten the charging time from eight to two hours, and to significantly reduce the cost.

Chalmers is a key research and knowledge partner for SCALE, ensuring early capitalisation of the state-of-the-art knowledge base and understanding of the end-user requirements. Disposing of a test bed for smart energy research enables the researchers to perform real life demonstrations in a controlled environment. Chalmers also contributes to the development of V2X technology and the business model creation, especially in the V-2-Home and V-2-Grid domains.

FIER Automotive and Mobility (since 1995) is a specialized consulting and business development company, active in the dynamic market of mobility and logistics, focusing on sustainability and innovation. FIER initiates, develops and manages projects which have a strong impact on making mobility more sustainable and contribute to the fight against climate change.

FIER leads the work package 3. The main objective of this WP is to implement and execute the 13 use cases spread over four innovation clusters to increase the scalability of smart charging and V2X applications.

The Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH) was founded in 2000 and is one of the leading R&D centers in Greece. It is listed among the TOP 20 E.U. institutions with the highest participation in competitive research grants. It includes 5 institutes, three of which participate in SCALE: Hellenic Institute of Transport (risk assessment framework, usability and user experience study, training program for the pilots), Chemical Process & Energy Resources Institute (methodological framework with KPIs to benchmark performance of solutions and evaluation of environmental performance of pilots), Information Technologies Institute (develop a SW tool, activities to simulate mass EVSE deployment and assist in realizing the SCALE energy impact assessment framework).

Universiteit Utrecht (UU) founded in 1636, is an internationally renowned research university. Sustainability is one of the four themes of research and education at UU and the Faculty of Geosciences. Within this faculty, the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development has an Energy & Resources (E&R) group of around 60 staff and researchers which support the transition to a sustainable energy and resource system. They have pioneered various areas and operates internationally with a strong track record on the deployment of EVs for grid stability using V2G with many stakeholders in the Utrecht area.

In SCALE, UU will develop a methodology for planning charging infrastructure.

RISE is an independent, state-owned research institute. Their mission is to strive for sustainable growth in Sweden by strengthening the competitiveness and capacity for renewal of Swedish industry, as well as promoting the innovative development of society as a whole. They have a focus on electromobility and smart charging.

In SCALE, RISE will focus on the project’s preparation for mass-deployment: exploitation, policy & legal recommendations and standardization.

The Electric Mobility Initiative (UEMI) was launched at the UN Climate Summit in September 2014 in New York. It aims to decrease urban CO2 emissions globally, phasing out conventionally powered vehicles in cities and integrating electric mobility into a broader concept of sustainable urban transport. The UEMI secretariat develops partnerships with local authorities, industry, SMEs, knowledge and network partners to implement innovative urban electric mobility solutions. It currently consists of over 150 partners collaborating on implementation-oriented projects.

In SCALE , UEMI will work on the development of guidelines for adapting the EU’s successful SUMP framework to the ‘SCALE project for G2X-V2X integrated cross-sectoral planning’ in order to enable local authorities to directly implement SCALE results as part of their climate action plans.

ElaadNL is the knowledge and innovation centre in the field of smart charging infrastructure in the Netherlands. It is a partnership consisting of the united grid operators who manage the Dutch grid of electricity and gas. They focus on preparing for a future with electric mobility, and sustainable and smart charging.

ElaadNL is proud to be the coordinator of the SCALE consortium. It will develop an Industry reference architecture for Smart Charging and bi-directional charging. The Elaad Testlab in Arnhem will be a cornerstone during the project for testing smart charging, bidirectional charging, interoperability and cyber security of interactions between electric vehicles, charging infrastructure and the power grid.

Rupprecht is an independent research and consultancy company based in Cologne, Germany. It is a well-known international player in the field of sustainable urban mobility, in European and international projects. Rupprecht applies an integrated and multi-disciplinary approach to urban mobility projects, with expertise in active transport, collective mobility, multimodality, (clean) vehicle technologies, Co-operative Intelligent Transport System (C-ITS)/automation, sustainable urban mobility planning, as well as community well-being and social inclusion.

In SCALE, Rupprecht Consult will bring in its expertise as main author and concept developer for the sustainable urban mobility planning (SUMP) to develop the SCALE blueprint for integrated G2X-V2X cross-sector planning based on the SUMP methodology. Furthermore, it will lead project management which includes risk monitoring and mitigation, developing quality management plans and liaising with partners for project reporting among others.

Trialog is an independent consulting company which provides expertise for innovative technologies in embedded and industrial systems. It helps its clients manage increasingly complex software and systems. In conjunction with the clients’ needs, Trialog provides original solutions in engineering technology. Its domains of activity are smart metering, smart grids, electro-mobility, cybersecurity and privacy.

In SCALE, as a technology and knowledge provider, Trialog will bring its experience on use cases definition, electro-mobility communication protocols, tests and standardization. It will also develop its on-the-shelf charging station stacks to make V2G a reality using ISO 15118-20 and OCPP.

Since its foundation in 1995, Bayern Innovativ GmbH has been an important part of the innovation policy of Bavaria. Its primary role is to network, promote, and advise companies, scientific institutions, and organizations, through their Thinknet Bayern that comprises more than 75,000 players. The result is a dynamic, cross-industry knowledge transfer around a variety of NEB-relevant topics, including new materials, new forms of construction, sustainable energy systems, future mobility, health and digitisation. All their activities focus in particular on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and start-ups.

SCALE uses the expertise of Bayern Innovativ with their Patentzentrum, an essential part of ensuring that all project partners come to an agreement governing IPR-related activities. Bayern Innovativ also fosters knowledge transfer and networking through the organisation of events, forums, and conferences to promote SCALE results.

Cities, Associations & More

Utrecht is the fourth largest city in the Netherlands and the capital of the province of Utrecht. The city is evolving from a medium-sized provincial city into a regional capital of European importance. Utrecht aims to be one of the first to have a fully bi-directional system, using the batteries of electric cars to help store solar energy, since this depends on weather conditions and batteries are not always available for energy storage.

As part of the Reference Group, the city of Utrecht commits to validating and exchanging project activities and to benefit from capacity building to replicate best practices, and project results (e.g., standards, links to joint procurement). In addition, Utrecht will host some SCALE project events, including physical workshops and Bidirectional City meetings for members of the European V2X Alliance.

AVERE (The European Association for Electromobility) is a European association that promotes electromobility and sustainable transport across Europe.

Their members consist of Companies, Research Institutions, and National Associations supporting and encouraging the use of EVs and electromobility across Europe. They currently have more than 50 active members, including from some of the most successful EV countries like Norway, France, The Netherlands and Belgium.

Within these Associations, there are more than 2.600 industry members, ranging from SMEs, OEMs, and other companies with a commercial interest in electromobility and more than 150.000+ EV users.

In SCALE, AVERE will work on policy recommendations, capacity building, legal, market and regulatory frameworks to enable mass-deployment, and dissemination.

The Norwegian EV Association represents over 110 000 EV drivers in Norway. They cooperate with the Norwegian government, the electric car industry, and other organizations. In addition, they promote Norway as a best case for electric vehicles policy to Europe and the rest of the world, and promote electric mobility for the benefit of climate and the environment.

Within SCALE, they will contribute to the analysis of user and stakeholder needs, planning requirements and development of a system architecture for smart charging & V2X through consumer behaviour research.

POLIS is the leading network of European cities and regions working together to develop innovative technologies and policies for local transport. Its missions are to facilitate peer-to-peer exchange between cities and regions, and the private sector, on urban transport policy and innovation, help its members gain access to European initiatives and projects, and to be the transport voice of cities and regions towards the European institutions.

In SCALE, POLIS is leading the Communication, Replication and European take-up activities to build momentum for V2X, smart charging and electric vehicles. The goal, amongst others, is to promote knowledge transfer, conduct capacity building activities, and communicate and disseminate SCALE’s results.

Equigy is a European crowd balancing platform that creates a trusted data exchange platform to enable aggregators to participate with smaller flexibility devices, such as home batteries and electric vehicles, in electricity balancing markets, turning consumers into prosumers. With six leading European Transmission System Operators (TenneT NL, TenneT GER, Terna, Swissgrid, APG and TransnetBW), EQUIGY aims to set cross-industry standards throughout Europe, to support a future-proof, reliable and cost-effective power system.

Equigy will provide to SCALE: a neutral and interoperable data layer for V2G services that enables validation of delivery of the grid services in a way that enables prosumers to be in charge of their own data sharing (GDPR proof), and aggregators to access multiple markets via one interface that is ready for scaling to mass adoption.

DSOs & TSOs

As a regional distribution system operator, LEW Verteilnetz GmbH (LVN) ensures reliable and secure operation of the electricity grid and guarantees discrimination-free grid access. The network area of LVN covers parts of Bavaria in the German south. LEW Verteilnetz GmbH is a subsidiary of Lechwerke AG (LEW).

Together with SCALE’s project partner, LVN is demonstrating and explorating the bidirectional charging potential in the residential sector in the rural network area of LVN. The focus is on optimised self-consumption and the question to which degree bidirectional charging increases self-consumption and reduces exchange with the electricity grid in terms of power and energy.

Since 2008, Enedis is an independent subsidiary of the EDF group. As a DSO, it manages the public electricity distribution network on 95% of the French territory and carries out all technical interventions (connection, troubleshooting, meter reading…), regardless of the customer’s electricity supplier. Enedis works with key players (car dealers, recharging operators, property managers, etc.), energy suppliers and local authorities to facilitate the installation of charging stations and support the growth in the number of electric vehicles.

In SCALE, Enedis contributes to protocols assessment in their Labs and leads a Use Case in the Smart Charging at business/offices Cluster: “Smart charging in car dealer’s depot” which combines smart charging and local renewable energy sources.

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