Open Charge Point Protocol

Example

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Separate compatibility from requested average power.

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Depot charging

Charging a fleet of buses or trucks at the depot, usually overnight at 50–150 kW per vehicle, which keeps cell stress low and lets an energy-management system sequence the chargers against the site’s grid connection.

Energy management system

The site-level controller of a storage system that decides when to charge and discharge according to prices, grid signals and the battery’s limits, and dispatches those commands to the BMS and inverters.

Fleet telematics

The systems that collect battery state, consumption and fault data from each vehicle in a fleet and bring them to the depot and the operator. For an electric bus fleet they are what turns BMS data into charging plans and warranty cases.

IEC 63110-1

The first part, published in 2022, of an IEC protocol series for managing electric-vehicle charging and discharging infrastructure: definitions, use cases and architecture for energy-transfer management, charger asset management, authentication and payment, and cybersecurity. Like OCPP, it governs the link between chargers and the systems that run them, and its scope includes discharging for vehicle-to-grid.

ISO 15118

The communication standard between an electric vehicle and a charging station: identification, authorisation, charge scheduling and, in the −20 edition, bidirectional power transfer. It is what lets a car authenticate itself and start charging with no card or app.

References & further reading

Further reading on this topic

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1. Electric Vehicle Charging Stations

   U.S. Department of Energy, Alternative Fuels Data Center

   Topic background · U.S. charging equipment levels, charging infrastructure and connector context. Regional terminology varies.