IEA-4E EDNA Workshop on Efficient Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment - EVSE

Organizer

• ECODESIGN company GmbH
• Austrian Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology

The way to achieving climate goals goes hand in hand with the adoption of electric mobility. This strategy is already visible as the market of electric vehicles grows in various world regions, according to data from the latest IEA Global Electric Vehicle Outlook from 2017. New implementation of electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) is a pre-requisite to support the e-vehicle growth.

The energy performance of the EVSE was the topic discussed in this one day workshop with national and international experts, as part of the ongoing scoping study on "Energy Efficiency of EVSE" initiated by the Electronic Devices and Networks Annex EDNA (IEA- 4E EDNA, 2017: https://edna.iea-4e.org/tasks/evse) of the Technology Collaboration Programme Energy Efficient End-Use Equipment (IEA - 4E).

The state of the art and complexity of testing EVSE for its own energy consumption and efficiency were presented with examples of available technologies for conductive charging, currently investigated by the Austrian Institute of Technology and the European Interoperability Centre for Electric Vehicles and Smart Grids at the Joint Research Centre JRC.

Testing is one of the pillars for developing energy efficiency strategies and policy approaches for EVSE. Learning from e-mobility projects and pilot regions is also needed to understand the roles, interests and capabilities of key players in the supply chain such as EV producers, EVSE producers, e-mobility platforms and grid operators. Technical differences (slow vs. fast charging), environmental conditions (too low or high ambient temperatures), and user patterns for charging can have a significant impact, not only on the energy performance of EVSE as such, but also on the regional electricity grid. Taking the life cycle assessment perspective to consider the energy supply for the charging process shows how the different energy mixes in various IEA countries have an impact on overall greenhouse gas emissions of e-mobility.

The experts discussed aspects of the interaction and use of EVSE by consumers and how these influence the type of location and the business models for e-vehicle charging. The prospects and challenges of inductive charging were also discussed and compared with the current EVSE conductive technologies, in terms of trade-offs concerning product design, use, performance and safety.

This workshop was organized by the ECODESIGN company GmbH and the Austrian Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology BMVIT. The slides of the workshop are now available.

The overall energy performance of EVSE encompasses both the charging efficiency as well as the own energy consumption of the infrastructure itself. This is the topic of this workshop with national and international experts, which aims at exploring the current knowledge on energy performance and testing, as basis for energy efficiency strategies and policy approaches for EVSE.

This workshop is part of the activities of the ongoing scoping study on "Energy Efficiency of EVSE" initiated by the Electronic Devices and Networks Annex (EDNA) of the Technology Collaboration Programme Energy Efficient End-Use Equipment (IEA – 4E) under Austrian leadership, and with the coordination of the ECODESIGN company GmbH.

• BMVIT welcome, setting the stage & relevance of the topic
  DI Hans-Jürgen Salmhofer
  Stabstelle Dekarbonisierung, BMVIT
• Trends on EVSE from the 2017 IEA Electric Vehicle Outlook
  Ms. Marine Gorner – Co-author of the 2017 Global EV Outlook
  IEA, Directorate for Technology, Sustainability and Outlooks
• Conductive EVSE technologies
  Available technologies, products on the market and energy efficiency 
  Mr. Martin Nöhrer
  Electric Energy Systems, Center for Energy, Austrian Institute of Technology
• High-speed charging solutions and energy efficiency
  DI Leonard Müller
  SMATRICS GmbH & Co KG.
• Inductive EVSE technologies - Available technologies, market products and energy efficiency
  Mr. Janosch Marquart
  NTB University of Applied Sciences Buchs, Switzerland
• Standby power consumption and efficiency under operational load of DC chargers for electric vehicles 
  Dr. Harald Scholz
  European Interoperability Centre for Electric Vehicles and Smart Grids at the Joint Research Centre JRC
• Charging infrastructure and Life Cycle Assessments
  IEA HEV Task 30 - Environmental assessments
  Martin Beermann, Gerfried Jungmeier
  Future Energy Systems & Lifestyle and IEA HEV, JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH
• Efficiency in practice, learning from projects EMPORA and e-connected
  DI Herbert Pairitsch
  Infineon Technologies AG

Discussion, wrap-up and networking

• • Future activities and initiatives All invited experts and participants

Moderation Dr. Wolfgang Wimmer, ECODESIGN company GmbH

Dr. Adriana Díaz, IEA - 4E Co-Delegate for Austria
"ECODESIGN company" engineeering & managemet consultancy GmbH
Schwindgasse 4/2
A-1040 Vienna
Tel.: +43 (1) 40 35 611 33
E-mail: diaz@ecodesign-company.com
Web: www.ecodesign-company.com