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Theme fund: NGI0 Commons Fund
Start: 2025-11
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EVQI

Unified data exchange for electrical Vehicle charging

The project addresses a central structural weakness of today’s e-mobility ecosystem: fragmented communication between EVs, charging stations, operator backends, grid systems, regulators, and end-user applications. This fragmentation leads to slow, opaque, and error-prone charging processes for drivers, while manufacturers and operators face inconsistent data models, weak security guarantees, and growing regulatory demands.

Building on long-standing and award-winning open-source work in e-mobility and metrology, the project tackles these challenges by introducing an open, real-time communication and validation layer. This layer unifies and extends existing e-mobility protocols and enables EV drivers to interact directly and securely with all components of the charging infrastructure. By adding cryptographic integrity anchors, metrological correctness, and proactive low-latency communication beneath current standards, it delivers transparent and verifiable charging information that can be independently validated — strengthening EV drivers trust, supporting grid safety, and meeting future regulatory compliance especially under EU CRA, EU NIS2 and the upcoming revision of the EU MID.

Run by GraphDefined GmbH

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This project was funded through the NGI0 Commons Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 101135429. Additional funding is made available by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI).