Charged EVs | ChargeX consortium recommends common EV charging station error codes

The National Charging Experience Consortium (ChargeX) is a collaboration amongst DOE nationwide labs, EV charging trade gamers and shopper advocates. Its mission is to gauge and enhance the shopper expertise with public EV charging infrastructure within the US.

Now the consortium has launched a report that recommends 26 frequent EV charging error codes to allow quicker error reporting, diagnostics and backbone.

The brand new report, Recommendations for Minimum Required Error Codes, goals to scale back confusion amongst charger producers, automobile OEMs and charging station operators, who at the moment use completely different messages to report related errors. The frequent codes ought to assist simplify diagnostics when a charging session fails, streamlining EV charging community operations and enhancing the charging expertise for drivers.

“To make an electrified street journey handy and dependable, corporations within the EV charging ecosystem should be on the identical web page about how they convey, particularly when points come up,” mentioned Gabe Klein, Government Director of the Joint Workplace of Vitality and Transportation, which funds ChargeX.

ChargeX trade members ABB and EVgo demonstrated among the error codes in the course of the current CharIN Testival in Cleveland, Ohio.

“We’re proud to work alongside ChargeX to implement root-cause options that may result in an elevated buyer expertise,” mentioned Ivo Steklac, Chief Know-how Officer at EVgo. “Standardized error codes, which apply to each autos and chargers, are foundational for understanding buyer expertise so the complete EV ecosystem can march ahead collectively in the direction of options.”

“We’re excited to start implementing these codes,” mentioned Cuong Nguyen, Supervisor of Trade Affairs and Requirements at ABB, and co-chair of the working group that led the report. “As an organization that helped develop these frequent error codes, we hope to now display their worth to others within the trade, resulting in widespread adoption.”

Supply: Idaho National Laboratory