The project has reached a Technology Readiness Level of 7 as defined by the EU guideline for TRL7 for a “system prototype demonstrated in operational environment”. NeMo has delivered a fully operational and functional prototype of the Hyper-Network and its marketplace that by end of the project has been used by partners of the consortium, as well as Honda as Associate partner and Hackathon participants, expanding to a 8-Node network (with 4 Affiliated partners and more than 35 services), creating their Nodes, in order to describe, publish and provide their services in business offerings, as well as find and invoke services from a list of available offered services by other actors in the marketplace (B2B). Commercial actors like eRoaming platforms, OEMs, DSOs, CPOs, IT service providers have joined as business partners. The Inter-Roaming protocol, interconnecting the eRoaming platforms, the Extended Vehicle standard via the Trustee service, offering secured APIS for common and secured in vehicle data provision, example horizontal services, the service broker and CP monitor & profiler, as well as B2B2C services, 3rd party service provider consuming NeMo EVdata Trustee service to offer to end customer (navigation service provider, road operator), etc., were all supported by the NeMo results, having been tested and demonstrated in operational environments as well as simulations where necessary. Planned demonstrations included France, Italy, Spain, Germany and Austria, as well as cross-country test drive, while additionally the ExVeh concept with double consent of the driver (to share real time EV data to a 3rd service provider) was demonstrated in ACEA as the first implemented real use case of their User Group 3. NeMo APIs were also validated via a virtual Hackathon by real external developers as well as by electromobility stakeholders during the demos.
The impact of the project’s activities and outcomes can be summarised as follows:
Improved attractiveness of EVs, achieved through a seamless electromobility services provision (“charge everywhere with one contract”) and ergonomic energy management cycle; via the evaluation of driver’s increased satisfaction indirectly.
Progress on ICT-based technologies for coordinated EV recharging; with grid services that can result in savings around 8% as regards the total CP energy costs, or service brokerage that can increase the number of users being able to charge for a given set of CPs while at the same time minimising the number of CPs over occupied and under occupied.
Contributions to standardisation strengthening the competiveness of the European industry and Standardised BMS components and interfaces; via the Common Information Models, the TTCN-3 based V2G test tool, the joined actors such as Honda and EMSPS and CPOs under 7 pan European e-Roaming agreements.
Improvements in the cost-performance ratio of EV contributing to quicker market take-up; and enhancements to vehicle range and/or weight, battery life and reliability without compromising on safety - delivering a more robust and well managed battery system; via the increased theoretical range of the final test drive.
