1 st FAST IN CHARGE PROJECT INTRODUCTION...2 FAST IN CHARGE PARTNERS INTRODUCTION...3 FOCUS ON SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES...6 RELATED PROJECTS...

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1 1 st FAST IN CHARGE PROJECT INTRODUCTION...2 FAST IN CHARGE PARTNERS INTRODUCTION...3 The FastInCharge consortium is pleased to present the first issue of the FastInCharge newsletter. In this issue we give a general presentation of the project including FastInCharge objectives, partners, planning, first achievements and next steps. More information about the project can further be found in public documents available on the FastInCharge website ( FOCUS ON SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES...6 RELATED PROJECTS....8 The purpose of these newsletters is to inform about project activities progress and achievements as well as to establish a dynamic communication link with the partners, collaborators and the users community. For these reasons your contribution and comments to our newsletters and/or website are always welcome. FastInCharge team FastInCharge Partners: TUG, Bulgaria EQY, France ACWS, Slovakia BATZ, Spain DOUAI, France ICCS, Greece TECNALIA, Spain CRF, Italy Project Coordinator: Project Start: October 2012 Duration: 36 months Project is supported by European Union s Seventh Framework Programme

2 FASTINCHARGE INTRODUCTION FastInCharge project aims at fostering the democratisation of electric vehicles in the urban environment by developing an easier and more comfortable charging solution which will enable to ease the Electric Vehicles (EV) use by the large public and facilitate their implementation in the urban grid. FastInCharge s intention is to develop a cost-effective modular infrastructure offering a global solution for EV charging. Its success will boost research in the direction of dynamic charging solutions. FastInCharge Objectives FastInCharge Impact In the scope of FastInCharge, a complete charging infrastructure will be developed and demonstrated in order to: 1. Address consumers acceptance of electric vehicles by getting rid of the autonomy issue, 2. Test its implementation and assess its easy feasibility, 3. Optimize the energy delivery to stations and its interaction with the grid and vehicles, 4. Study the impact of its integration in the urban environment to foresee eventual problems that would occur in the frame of a real integration. Project launching Such an approach for the on-route charging infrastructure can greatly help cities and local authorities to deal with the investment problem linked with the integration of heavy cost infrastructures. The investment and the construction work can be distributed along the years and avoid huge one-shot investments. The modular approach allows implementing easier stationary and on-route charging solutions and also decreases the overall cost of the infrastructure, because it relies on mass-production of a single element. The project started its activities with a Kick-off meeting on December The meeting, held at Douaisienne de Basse Tension, Douai, France, has gathered the consortium of this project. It was a welcome opportunity for the partners to discuss the projects activities together with the European Commission, represented by Mr. Maurizio Maggiore. After the meeting, David Mignan and Alexis Vanoost, from DBT, organized a visit of their new production site. Since April 2 nd, people can discover FastInCharge project through its website: This website is the main dissemination tool of the project. The public section aims at communicating the results to as many scientists, industrials and citizens as possible. The development of new sections on fastincharge.eu and the publications of news is an on-going process that will continue until the end of the project. 2

3 FASTINCHARGE PARTNERS INTRODUCTION DOUAISIENNE DE BASSE TENSION, FRANCE DBT is the largest European charging station manufacturer. Based on a long experience since the 1990 s, DBT has installed over 6000 stations in over 20 countries since DBT designs, produces and distributes four different products: Recharging units and boxes for electrical vehicles; Retractable access control bollards and deterrent systems; Energy supplying units for public spaces and Electric current transformers. DBT s solutions are sold to a large spectrum of clients, from large companies, airports, municipalities etc. Hervé Borgoltz, CEO, was awarded the price of Entrepreneur of 2011 in October from Ernst&Young Enterprise magasine. This reinforces their position as leader for electric charging infrastructure. EUROQUALITY, France EQY is a service provider established in 1997 specialised in Innovation, European research project administrative management and technology transfer. Main activities are consultancy in innovation, technology transfer, economical studies and policy evaluation, technological audits and the management of European research development projects. The company is located in Paris, Bordeaux, Marseille and Brussels. Since 2003 EQY has coordinated more than 30 European collaborative projects and Coordination Action projects from FP5, FP6 and FP7, mainly within the field Transport, KBBE, Health and ICT. EQY has also coordinated proposals under green initiatives such as the Life+ programme, thus ensuring a wide understanding of the European Union s directives and ambitions for a green transport in Europe. TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF GABROVO, Bulgaria TU Gabrovo is a state university created in 1964 conducting teaching for Bachelor and Master Degrees in 18 courses and for the degree of Doctor in 31 courses. The university comprises a Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Electronics, a Faculty of Mechanical and Precision Engineering, a Faculty of Economics, and a Technical College in Lovech. TUG is also dynamic on the international level. It collaborates with 19 higher education institutions from 13 countries. Some Erasmus activities are carried out, mainly student and staff mobility and ECTS implementation. The University has also been actively involved in several European projects. 3

4 COMMUNE DE DOUAI, France Sub-Prefecture of the North, the city of Douai is located about 200 km from Paris with total population 45,000 inhabitants. It is part of the urban community of Douai, which includes 35 municipalities representing about inhabitants. The main industries in the town are in the chemical and metal engineering sectors. Douai has a strong and historical connection to the automotive sector (Renault, Société Nouvelle WM, Inoplast SIAC). Renault has a huge vehicle assembly plant near the town, which has produced many well-known Renault vehicles. Moreover, the Mayor of Douai, Mr Jacques VERNIER, Polytechnician and engineer of Mines gives a priority to green projects for the city of Douai. AUTOMOTIVE CLUSTER WEST SLOVAKIA, Slovakia ACWS was founded by City of Trnava and Trnava Municipality Region in 2007 with main focus to help SMEs to be successful and competitive in automotive industry chains. The membership of ACWS is composted by Educational institutions, Innovations centers, agencies, chambers of commerce and 30 other Enterprises. Services provided to the members include the cooperation between producers and suppliers, regularly organized conferences, workshops in automotive, educational courses provided by Automotive Academy for managers acting in automotive, active participation in EU projects oriented to the collaboration in research, HR and business areas in automotive field. Since March 2013 ACWS offering the Offer/Demand WEB portal in order to promote activities in the field of applied research ( INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS, Greece The Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS) is associated with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens. ICCS has been established in 1989 by the Ministry of Education in order to carry out research and development activities in the fields of telecommunication and computer systems and their applications in a variety of sectors. The Electric Energy Systems Laboratory (EESL) is one of the Research Groups of ICCS. EESL offers degrees of research training for students in Power System Analysis, Power Generation, Power System Control and Stability, Transmission and Distribution Networks, Power System Protection, Renewable Energy Sources, Electric Vehicles, SCADA and Digital Techniques in Power Systems. 4

5 CENTRO RICERCHE FIAT, Italy CRF was established in 1978 as a center of expertise for innovation, research and development. Recognized internationally as a center of excellence, CRF s mission is to provide a strategic lever for Fiat businesses. CRF draws on a broad array of technical skills and a series of state-of-the-art laboratories for testing powertrain systems and electromagnetic compatibility and conducting NVH analyses and driving simulations. Particularly active in the area of sustainable mobility, CRF studies innovative solutions through a 360-degree approach to mobility encompassing vehicles, components, energy, safety, telematics, innovative materials and related technologies, mechatronics and optics, as well as innovative concepts in engine technology, alternative propulsion systems and transmissions. TECNALIA, Spain TECNALIA is a research organization resulting from the merging of eight research organizations: Fundación Cidemco, Fundación ESIEuropean Software Institute, Fundación European Virtual Engineering, Fundación Fatronik, Fundación Inasmet, Fundación Labein, Fundación Leia and Fundación Robotiker. TECNALIA is the leading private research and technology entity in Spain and the fifth largest in Europe. TECNALIA is very active in participating the FP7, having already 150 funded projects, 31 of them coordinated. Innovation Systems, Sustainable Development (Energy, Construction and Environment), Industry and Transport (Casting and iron&steel, Transport and Industrial Systems), ICT (Software, Telecom, Infotech and Information Society) and Health and Life Quality are the fields in which TECNALIA operates. In this proposal the Transport Unit of Tecnalia will be involved. BATZ, Spain BATZ is a Tier1 global supplier. Nowadays BATZ works in two sectors, automotive and renewable energy. BATZ Automotive is also divided in three activities: Stamping toolingone of the major shops in Europe specialized in dies design and manufacturing. Automotive systems- specialized in several safety and ergonomic mechanisms as pedal modules or proactive headrests and Lightweight technologies - named FPK, specialized in design and manufacturing of cars structural parts using composites. BATZ comprises 5 manufacturing plants in the north of Spain, other six around the World and several technical/manufacturing agreements to fulfill the required global footprint in the automotive industry. BATZ is part of MONDRAGON, the largest cooperative Industrial Group in the world. 5

6 FOCUS ON SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES EUROQUALITY ACTIVITY Since the project FastInCharge has started, EQY has developed the project website which is the one of the main dissemination tools of the project. Future developing of the website and news as well as the maintenance will be provided by Euroquality. Euroquality is preparing a market analysis which aims at defining the best practices for implementing the demonstration in the city of Douai. To achieve this, European past and on-going experiences related to the demonstration of inductive charging systems are scrutinised. Euroquality investigates the different existing wireless technologies in the world and the main demonstration sites where automotive companies have tested their technologies in real situation. The analysis specially focuses on the minimum distance between the road and the carter, the power rate transmitted, the electromagnetic emission and misalignment tolerance of the vehicle with the recharging station. This analysis includes the research progress on the risks related to the magnetic fields on health. In parallel to this market analysis, Euroquality prepared a questionnaire for Douai inhabitants to collect their opinion and feelings on EVs and the inductive charging system. This questionnaire is available in French on FastInCharge website( ge.eu/fr/questionnaire.php). Euroquality, France 6

7 FOCUS ON SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES ICCS/NTUA RESPONSIBILITIES IN PROJECT Generally, EVs can be regarded as a new type of distributed energy resources defined by two major characteristics namely controllability and mobility. Controllability means that their charging process can be shifted to off-peak hours in conformity with the EV owners needs. Mobility means that EVs are able to connect at different parts of the grids and still enjoy the same quality of services. The integration of electric vehicles into power systems under the fit and forget principle is not efficient for the secure and reliable operation of power grids. The energy requirements that fulfill EV needs are highly dependent on the EV owners traffic pattern. The charging demand of an EV fleet can be synchronized with high consumption periods resulting in high peak demand which can strike the network operation, i.e. severe feeder voltage excursions and equipment overloads. Consequently, in order to prevent premature grid investments, EV charging management schemes should be implemented. Managing EV fleet charging requires the development of new energy market entities. EV Supplier Aggregator (EVS/A) is the new actor responsible for purchasing the requested charging energy from the wholesale market and managing EV charging. Since electric vehicles are dispersed in wide geographical areas, intermediate aggregation layers should be considered namely Regional Aggregator units (RAU) and Microgrid Aggregator Units (MGAU). ICCS/NTUA is responsible for developing an EV charging control for the efficient integration of stationary and on route inductive fast charging stations in distribution networks. This will enable the installation and operation of fast chargers in cities without disturbing the electric network operation. The principles of Multi-Agent systems and Microgrid concept will be explored for managing EV charging demand. The developed charging control will be implemented in real distribution networks in order to assess its efficiency. ICCS, Greece 7

8 RELATED PROJECTS OFFER DEMAND PORTAL for collaboration between research and business sector In March 2013 Automotive Cluster West Slovakia launched the new Offer-Demand Portal at the conference "Improving the quality and control of technological processes and production lines for the automotive industry". The portal was introduced to the automotive cluster members and the general public 21 st March OFFER DEMAND PORTAL for collaboration between research and business sector is outcome of the project of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic on promoting activities in the field of applied research on "Improving and control of technological processes and production lines for the industry using the latest management and information systems". Portal is used to enter the demand of a business sector provides place for research sector to offer R & D activities is a database of scientific community, as it provides information about scientific research institutions and their technical equipment and possibilities of cooperation with business sector is a database of members of the automotive cluster, provides information on R & D needs of the automotive cluster members and subcontractors automotive industry due to the improvement of technological processes and production lines is a database of job vacancies in the automotive industry. Benefits for the award of offers and demands creating space for open cooperation between members of the automotive cluster for their growth and increase competitiveness. Support members in innovating technological processes and production lines help and support the transfer of scientific and research activities directly to members organize, design and implementation of projects specified business sector conducting research and development tasks according to the needs of the automotive industry. Collaboration between research and business sector providing space on offer specific research and development activities in the automotive industry for the active involvement of the research community. The Portal is mainly addressed to the business sector Automotive Cluster members and subcontractors of automotive industry, who are interested in upgrading and management of technological processes and production lines using the latest management and information systems Research sector - SAV workplaces, universities, science and technology parks, centers of excellence. The portal is currently running at regional and national level, but there is plan to expand the portal at the international level to the European subcontractors and other players from automotive. ACWS, Slovakia 8

9 RELATED PROJECTS CRF IS ALSO PARTICIPATING IN UNPLUGGED PROJECT CRF is also participating in Unplugged project As FastInCharge, Unplugged project aims to investigate the use of inductive charging of electric vehicles (EV) in urban environments improving the convenience and the sustainability of car-based mobility. Partners of Unplugged project are: FKA, Enide Solutions, CRF, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Volvo Technology AB, Continental Automotive GmbH, Hella KGaA Hueck & Co, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Idiada Automotive Technology SA, TRT Limited, Commissariat A L Energie Atomique et Aux Energies Alternatives, Endesa SA, Enel Distribuzione, Fundacion Circe Centro de Investigacion de Recursos y Consumos Energeticos, Politecnico di Torino, Transport for London and BAE Systems. With the aim to evaluate the performance/impact of the different charging systems, CRF is planning to adopt in the two projects the same demonstrator vehicle: a Diesel Hybrid Light Commercial Vehicle (LCV) developed in collaboration with IVECO SpA. The hybrid powertrain consists of a 2.3l diesel engine, an electro-mechanically actuated Automated Manual Transmission (AMT) and an in-line electric motor-generator positioned between the engine and the transmission. The existing electric energy storage system will be replaced with a liquidcooled Li-ion battery system with enough electric energy to allow a pure electric mission (up to 30km) and integrating high power cell technology suitable for the wireless high power (up to 40 kw) transfer. A close collaboration between Unplugged and FastInCharge will be established by defining common requirements on the vehicle side (packaging, positioning, E/E architecture, electric interface, EMI shielding, human-machine interface, etc) taking in consideration the indications/advices coming in particular from the SAE J2954 (Wireless Charging of Electric and Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles) standard that is in a developing phase. CRF, Italy 9

10 RELATED PROJECTS DELPHI WIRELESS CHARGING SYSTEM Delphi is developing a Wireless Charging System that will automatically transfer power to a vehicle providing a convenient, wireless energy transfer system. The system was developed in cooperation with WiTricity Corp., a wireless energy transfer technology provider. It will enable an electric vehicle's battery to be recharged without the hassle of cords or connections. This handsfree charging technology is based on highly resonant magnetic coupling which transfers electric power over short distances without physical contact, allowing for safer and more convenient charging options for consumer and commercial electric vehicles. Delphi has rights under a patented MITdeveloped wireless energy transfer technology based on the following principle: Two properly designed devices with closely matched resonant frequencies can strongly couple into a single continuous magnetic field. The wireless charging system is comprised of the following: Vehicle mounted capture resonator and interface electronics fitted to the bottom of the vehicle Vehicle power and signal distribution systems Stationary source resonator pad mounted on the ground Stationary charging controller Benefits: Convenience and simplicity for electric vehicle owners; Enables easy, automatic charging by simply parking a vehicle in a garage or parking spot; System activates the moment a vehicle is aligned with the charging pad; Minimal driver action needed - hands-free; No plugs or charging cords needed; Accommodates drivers with physical challenges; Engineered to provide a safe, robust, reliable, and quick charge; Safe technology; No moving / mechanical parts; Effective across larger air gaps, allowing for a greater vehicle ground clearance; System can transfer 3.3 KW efficiently across air gaps in excess of 20 cm; Precise vehicle positioning is not required TU GABROVO, Bulgaria 10

11 FastInCharge Partners: Project Coordinator: FastInCharge project is supported by European Union s Seventh Framework Programme