Monday, 23 May 2011

EU EV charging formats to be recommended

The Focus Group on European Electro Mobility was set up by CEN and the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardisation (CENELEC) and is due to report its initial recommendations very soon.

Standardisation will decide the 'EU plug' wall and car connections for home, industrial, car park and DC charging stations, power quality, electromagnetic quality and batteries. Hopefully it will resolve the squabbling between the Germans on one side and the French and the Italians on the other.

It is a complicated path to navigate but is an important and overdue step towards standardisation,  convenience and importantly, cost reduction.