Workshops

Battery and hardware component wear remain a key concern for electric vehicle (EV) users and OEMs considering vehicle-to-everything (V2X) applications. This affects consumer confidence and is in the basis of a range of OEM-led policies aimed at regulating smart charging, ensuring interoperability and service reliability. This workshop explores this complex environment, highlighting often contradictory findings from V2X studies that show that V2X can both increase and potentially reduce battery wear, but also addresses the overlooked topic of the impact on reliability of certain EV components. 

The session will shed light on the EV OEM perspective on V2X, including emerging policies to protect battery and component use, such as battery or hardware warranties under V2X conditions, and/or vendor-lock in situations with selected energy service providers. The workshop acknowledges the crucial role of OEMs in providing clarity to EV users on their V2X expectations over the lifetime of the vehicle, as well as on sharing information on range loss from field data of EVs.

Lastly, participants will gain insights into the current policy at EU and international level relating to relevant battery data, such as state of health, battery useful life, and the new concept of virtual V2X miles.

Workshop structure

• Discussion Topic 1: “The Challenge of Real-World Battery and Component Data”
• Discussion Topic 2: “OEM Policies, Warranties, and V2X Deployment”
• Discussion Topic 3: “The Evolving EU Policy Framework for Battery Data and V2X”

Speaker
Leonhard Bartsch, Manager Charging, Ford
Jens Berger, Expert Invention Business Models Energy, BMW
Serge Ravary, V2G and EV Energy Services Expert, Ampere
Malthe Thingvad, Solutions Development Engineer​​​​​​, ​Spirii

Moderator
Prof. Gautham Ram Chandra Mouli, Associate Professor of Electric Mobility, TU Delft

As electric mobility, and especially V2G, continues to expand across Europe, charging infrastructure is becoming an increasingly important component of the broader Cloud-Edge-IoT continuum. Beyond simply connecting vehicles to the grid, charging stations are evolving into intelligent, interconnected assets that exchange data in real time, support new energy services, and contribute to more flexible and sustainable energy systems.

This workshop will explore how V2G charging stations can be integrated into Cloud-Edge-IoT environments, with a particular focus on interoperability, standards, and practical deployment challenges: 

• The session will start with an overview of current and future protocols and standards related to V2G for electric vehicles, charging stations and charge operators taking into account the integration into Cloud-Edge-IoT environments, and the impact of gridcodes regulations for the e-mobility ecosystem.

• It will be followed by a presentation of Charging Station Asset description in the framework of the O-CEI project, enabling the implementation of a digital twin focusing on Asset Performance Management to assess the condition and conduct predictive analyses on a network of bidirectional charging stations.  

• Then, a Software Defined Vehicle approach for V2G Integration in the O-CEI project will be presented including: vehicle safety, sustainability and carbon tracking, fleet V2G integration, grid optimization. 

• The session will be concluded by a presentation on required setup and testing capabilities for bidirectional charging in a context where few interoperable V2G cars and charging stations are available, and no reference implementation can be provided.

Workshop Structure

• Standardisation and Grid Code conformance in V2G
• V2G Charging session assets description 
• Software defined Vehicle for V2G
• Testing tools to integrate V2G cars and charging stations

Speaker
Cécile Rabrait, European Projects Manager Innovation - Smart Grids, Trialog
Olivier Maridat, CTO, Trialog

Electric-vehicle fleets and depot charging are becoming a strategic flexibility resource for Europe’s energy system. However, scaling vehicle-to-grid services requires more than bidirectional chargers and compatible vehicles. The event will address the role of an AI-driven  interoperable digital backbone that coordinates the operational priorities of fleets, availability, route planning, battery health and charging readiness, with the needs of power-system actors, including congestion management, balancing, demand response, renewable integration and resilience.

This roundtable will examine how AI and cloud-edge architectures can enable coordination operational at scale, with attention paid to the role of AI-IoT to connect different sectoral systems. Building on lessons from CEI-Sphere, O-CEI and related depot-charging initiatives, the session will explore the transition from individual V2G pilots to reusable, open and software-defined charging ecosystems. Particular attention will be given to the role of AI and edge intelligence, real-time data exchange, interoperable interfaces, cybersecurity and trust, shared data governance, and collaboration models between fleet operators, charge-point operators, OEMs, aggregators, grid operators and digital-platform providers.

The discussion will use the CEI-Sphere Hourglass model as a practical way to identify the common interoperability layer between heterogeneous devices and local systems at the edge, federated platforms and cloud services, and value-creating energy and mobility applications. The session will reflect on the perspectives of an open sovereign tech stack as a reference model to identify main building blocks,  minimum common interface capabilities, governance arrangements and commercial incentives that can enable fleet V2G to become repeatable, investable and deployable across European markets

The session will conclude with a concise set of recommendations for stakeholders seeking to turn software-defined depot charging into trusted, interoperable flexibility services.

Speaker
Rolf Riemenschneider, Head of IoT Sector in DG Connect, European Commission
Damir Filipovic, Managing Consultant, BluSpecs
Hannah Funk, Scientific Consultant, VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik, 

Panel discussion with audience participation centring on how interoperability efforts could be progressed in V2G/V2X charging projects, demonstrations and deployments, through cross-collaboration between projects and EV manufacturers (OEMs).

The objective is to overcome closed pilots and closed ecosystems that lead to silos in V2G charging. With differences in the implementation of standards and internal structures in the ecosystems, this will lead into compatibility issues and limit the large-scale adoption of V2G, especially using AC charging.

The workshop will explore how EV OEMs and demonstration projects can collaborate more, opening up the playing field. This could include extending the availability of pilot vehicles between V2G/V2X demonstration projects, so that projects can solve the issue of vehicle availability, and be able to cross-validate their solutions with different manufacturers. This would bring the compatibility issues to surface and lead into a more interoperable and open market, as well as speeding up the work in the existing projects and V2G adoption.

Speaker
Corneliu Barbu, Professor, Aarhus University (NeverFlat project)
Goncalo Mendes, Associate Professor, LUT University ( DriVe2X project)
Hugo Morais, Senior Researcher, Universidade de Lisboa – INESC-ID (Solar Move project)
Marko Paakkinen, Senior Scientist, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (ePowerMove project)
Alois Steiner, Co-Team Leader Innovative Energy Management & Comfort Systems, Virtual Vehicle Research (XL-Connect project)
Malthe Thingvad, Solutions Development Engineer, Spirii (AHEAD project)

Moderator
Anaïs Baudrier, Project Manager, ERTICO-ITS Europe

With electric vehicles becoming one of the largest distributed energy resources, V2X is moving from a technology demonstration to a commercial opportunity. Yet, its deployment remains limited to a few thousand units across Europe. One of the reasons: a lack of coherent framework, with different tracks developing in parallel. Indeed, several initiatives have already started on policy and standardisation efforts, but address each of these layers only partially and in isolation. 

smartEn has therefore developped a roadmap that higlights the next priority steps needed to create the regulatory and interoperability conditions that will allow V2X solutions to scale across Europe. Covering different areas such as standards, market access, grid connection and data access, this roadmap aims at ensuring that all relevant stakeholders work in a coordinated manner across those areas to reach the same objective: commercial scalability.

This workshop is the public launch of this roadmap. Speakers will share, for each area, the current gaps and recommendations to overcome them. This session will explore several topics from the EV-EVSE communication protocols to grid codes and connection requirements as well as flexibility markets. All in all, it seeks to highlight how to make most of the current framework and how to put in place the market enabling conditions alongside the technical standards in a coherent manner.