{"id":6870,"date":"2020-08-06T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T11:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/?p=6870"},"modified":"2020-08-06T13:10:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T11:10:00","slug":"plug-and-charge-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/2020\/08\/06\/plug-and-charge-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"How Will Plug-and-Charge Technology Benefit Fleets?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tritium CTO James Kennedy says the technology will be \u201cas simple as how we charge our phones, but with the added benefit of charging our bank accounts at the same time.\u201d Photo courtesy of Tritium<\/em><\/p>\n

Since the advent of paying via credit, we\u2019ve been conditioned to swipe a card or a fob at a fuel pump and enter a pin or a zip code. Easy enough.<\/p>\n

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As the electric vehicle market developed, however, charging at public stations became more complicated. Electric vehicle drivers would have to sign up for proprietary networks\u2019 systems to access and pay for the charging session with either a card or an RFID tag, adding time to the stop and creating a potential multitude of accounts to manage.<\/p>\n

New technology eliminates the card swipe altogether \u2014 when the driver plugs in the vehicle to charge, the user\u2019s account is automatically billed. The system, named Plug and Charge, was developed by Australia-based Tritium, makers of fast-charge technology. Tritium\u00a0currently holds 15% to 20% of the western global market for DC fast chargers.<\/p>\n

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The technology automatically and simultaneously charges both the battery and the user\u2019s account the moment a\u00a0Tritium\u00a0charger connects to an electric vehicle, without the need for a card or RFID tag and regardless of the charging network operator.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no need for any interaction by the driver at all, apart from plugging in,\u201d says James Kennedy, chief technology officer and cofounder of\u00a0Tritium.<\/p>\n

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The technology uses the\u00a0ISO 15118<\/a>\u00a0standard, an international standard that outlines the digital communication protocol that an EV and charging station should use to recharge the EV\u2019s battery.<\/p>\n

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The technology has been trialed in the field with existing and emerging EVs from OEMs in Europe and is available immediately. Tritium says it\u2019s the first to market with the offering, which is available immediately for charge point operators to deploy on\u00a0Tritium\u2019s PK350kW DC High Power Chargers.<\/p>\n

What is required for the technology to hit critical mass, says Kennedy, is buy-in and adoption on a large scale from charge point operators.<\/p>\n

Plug and Charge uses cryptographic certifications between the vehicle and the charger. Electric vehicles will also need a way to secure the vehicle-side \u201ccryptographic key\u201d which will become commonplace with emerging models.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe vehicles will need to have the storage technology built in, in much the same way as paying for something with your smartphone requires NFC technology,\u201d says Kennedy. \u201cOnce that becomes the norm, as NFC has, you will see the incidents of Plug and Charge payments skyrocket.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery charge point operator will soon look to do this; we see it from a payments perspective as no different to using a particular bank card at a competitor\u2019s ATM,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s taking the friction and hassle away from the experience and operators will benefit from this seamless experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kennedy says the\u00a0Tritium\u00a0Plug and Charge system is more secure than the former card swipe or RFID tag payment method.\u00a0\u201cYou\u2019re more likely to lose a card and have someone swipe it somewhere than by someone being able to access account details via our Plug and Charge technology,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

For fleets especially, the technology streamlines the recharging experience and surpasses the ease of fueling gas- or diesel-powered vehicles, with the potential to streamline billing.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to be as simple as how we charge our phones, but with the added benefit of charging our bank accounts at the same time,\u201d Kennedy says.<\/p>\n

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by Staff<\/p>\n

Source: https:\/\/www.truckinginfo.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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