By being in close collaboration with European EV initiatives, equipment

manufacturers, service providers, utili-ties and industrial networks, COTEVOS seeks a unified EU approach to the EV

interoperability and smart charging

Concepts, Capacities and Methods for Testing EV systems and their

interoperability within smart grids

Partners

Developing Capacities for Electric Vehicle Interoperability Assessment

1 September 2013 / 29 February 2016

Coordinated by:

www.cotevos.euFor more information please visitwww.cotevos.eu

TECNALIA www.tecnalia.com

Austrian Institute ofTechnology (AIT)www.ait.ac.at

ALTRA S.p.A.www.iveco.com

European Distributed EnergyResources Laboratories (DERlab)www.der-lab.net

Technical University ofDenmarkwww.elektro.dtu.dk

ETREL Svetovanje in druge storitve DOO (ETREL)www.etrel.com

Fraunhofer IWESwww.iwes.fraunhofer.de

Ricerca sul SistemaEnergetico - RSEwww.rse-web.it

The Netherlands Organisation of Applied Scientific Research (TNO)http://www.tno.nl

Lodz University of Technology (TUL)www.p.lodz.pl

Zapadoslovenska Distribúcia, a.s.www.zsdis.sk

Printed: 6 March 2014

Objectives

• Integration and alignment of testing methods with standards• Communication and information management• Unified test facilities• Development of tests and testing procedures

COTEVOS aims to establish the optimal structure and capacities to test the conformance, interoperability and performance of all systems making up the infrastructure for the charging of Electric Vehicles (EV).

The COTEVOS Project

COTEVOS verifies the functionalities different systems require to manage EV charging and the associated smart grid infrastructure. Based on the partners’ complementary experience, a decade of collaboration on facilities, standardi-sation and research infrastructures for DER, COTEVOS addresses such key issues as:• assessment of the interoperability of systems for the integration of EV in the grid•design of procedures and tests according to the relevant use cases•coherence with the Smart Grid Architecture Model•cross-national collaboration and transparency

The main goal is to help reduce the time-to-market of the equipment and to ensure its availability along with the market arrival of Electric Vehicles.

Workflow

Basic Facts

• Duration: September 2013 – February 2016• 11 partners from 9 countries• Profile: OEM, DSO, system manufacturer, laboratories• Wide international network and collaborations• Awarded with the EEGI Label• Coordinator: TECNALIA

This project has received funding from theEuropean Union’s Seventh Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No.: 608934.

Technical Fields of Work

• Integration and alignment of testing methods with standards • Communication and information management• Collective test facilities• Development of test and testing procedures• Business model analysis

External laboratories are invited to participate in round robin tests and in the development of new testing procedures

WP1Analysis of needs

WP3Communications

and protocolsWP4

Tests andprocedures

WP5Towards new

testing facilities

WP6Disseminationand contacts

WP7Management

WP2Standards

Concepts, Capacities and Methods for Testing EVsystems and their interoperability within smart grids