One of main goals of the 2020 industrial strategy is to support a stronger Single Market for EU’s recovery. This goal will be met enhancing global leadership in technologies and in standard setting towards ensuring interoperability across the EU industrial ecosystems. Standards are key enablers of the EU green transition. European Standardization Organizations support and promote the convergence of standardization work/development towards alignment at global level, contributing to a reduction of costs and to strengthen EU and global value chains, while EU priorities are considered. Standards & Standardization are recognized as a major tool for promoting innovation, for both policymakers and businesses. Standardization is an important factor for valorizing EU R&I projects, favoring their applicability on a larger scale, promoting their uptake by industry, and boosting innovation to market. Bringing the R&I community together with industrial stakeholders into the standards-making process is key to 1/identify the priorities, 2/share views on future developments and stakeholder/users’ needs, 3/provide recommendations to the EU Commission and EU Standardization Organizations for future standardization needs.
The Green Deal is calling for supporting deployment of more energy-efficient vehicles.
Electric Vehicles (EVs) play an important role to support the decarbonization of mobility industry. However, one of the main barriers to its diffusion is the need to recharge the battery because of the limited existing charging capacities. This is true for electric cars, but also for Light categories (L-cat) EVs (2 wheelers, 3-4 wheelers) with limited battery capacities.
Battery swapping is a system offering an attractive alternative allowing EVs owners to swap their empty batteries for fully charged ones in few seconds. This system can boost EV mobility, especially, L-cat e-vehicles deployment. STAN4SWAP set a robust standardization roadmap towards boosting innovation to market for Swappable Battery Systems for L-cat EVs deployment as a major contribution to safe, secure, resources, environmentally friendly and interoperable decarbonization solutions in mobility.
STAN4SWAP worked in a holistic manner and along the full value chain of light mobility, with all related and relevant stakeholders, to identify: Issues and challenges, Gaps, Barriers that standardization will help/contribute to solve and overcome.
Primary priority is to ensure interoperability and compatibility of swappable systems among different EVs and between EVs and swapping stations for users and logistics.
The new Battery Regulation is one of the driving pieces of legislation.With this roadmap, STAN4SWAP intends to be part of the EU standardization work program for next years and to impulse a significant signal to all value chain stakeholders. It is aimed at contributing to branding EU standards and promoting their adoption at global level (ISO and IEC). The deployment of this robust standardization roadmap is an essential step towards coherent, complementary and efficient development of standards in support of sustainable cities.
As general impact, this standardization roadmap will be a driver to meet the Green Deal and Fit for 55 goals in line with the EU regulatory framework and boost the excellence of Europe and its contribution to global committments (Paris agreement).
