The U.S. Joint Office of Energy and Transportation (Joint Office) will use LF Energy’s EVerest project to build an open source reference implementation for electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure. EVerest is an open source project with the goal of developing and maintaining an open source software stack for EV charging stations. It is a modular framework for EV charging, consisting of multiple modules which can be configured and customized for any necessary use case. EVerest manages communications around energy between the car, local energy generation, batteries, adjacent chargers, power grids, cloud backend and payment systems, and the user, including on a mobile phone. EVerest was originated by PIONIX GmbH and contributed to LF Energy in early 2022.

This webinar discusses how the collaborative development model offered by open source and the neutral governance structure provided by LF Energy will speed the adoption of EVs and decarbonization of transportation in the United States compared to relying on proprietary technologies by:
-Enabling development and deployment to happen at an accelerated rate
-Increasing customizability for different use cases
-Offering long-term maintainability
-Avoiding vendor-lock in while enabling a commercial support ecosystem
-Ensuring high levels of security

00:00 Intro and Overview of LF Energy
08:56 Overview of the Joint Office of Energy & Transportation
12:25 The Joint Office & EVerest
23:02 EVerest - History & Architecture
40:48 How to Get Involved
41:38 Q&A

This video was originally posted to https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2546-everest-one-stack-to-charge-them-all-/. Thank you to FOSDEM for sharing under CC-BY-2.0-BE-DEED (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/be/deed.en).

The main goal of EVerest is to develop and maintain an open source software stack for EV chargers with implementations of various communication protocols, robust hardware support and the ability to simulate the complete charging process.

In this talk we will give a short update on the exciting progress EVerest has seen over the last year.

We will also show you a selection of the different kinds of hardware EVerest is already capable of running on, like AC and DC chargers (for which open hardware designs are available). Additionally we will present how EVerest can be used to implement different kinds of devices like a portable, handheld DC "charger" that can be used for protocol testing various EVs.

We will also briefly discuss our plans for EV-side simulation and some of the exciting things we're working on to make our dream of providing a fully open source EV charging solution with extensive protocol support a reality!

Speaker:
Kai-Uwe Hermann, PIONIX

Learn more about the EVerest Project and how to get involved at https://lfenergy.org/projects/everest/.

EVerest: Current Status and How It Can Help Stabilize the Grid - Robert de Leeuw, PIONIX GmbH

After a quick introduction of EVerest: an open-source charging station software stack, we will look at the current status of EVerest, the progress made last year, and the current roadmap. We will finish the session with the benefits of EVerest for the energy grid.

This video was taken May 16, 2024 at the Open EV Charging Summit hosted by Texas Instruments in Dallas, TX.

The video captures a series of presentations and Q&A with organizations innovating in open source EV charging technologies at the event. Presenters included:
-Kelvin Le, Texas Instruments: This EVSE Demo demonstrates an AC Level 2 Charging Station (ISO-15118, IEC-61851, OCPP) featuring TIDA-010239, AM625 SoM + Carrier Board, CC3301 M.2 Card + LP-CC1352P7, and 8devices RedBeet HPGP expansion board , 10.1” LVDS panel from Lincoln Technology Solutions. This EVSE demo can demonstrate one of the following wireless communications protocol: Wi Fi, Sub-1 GHz, Matter.

-Justin Acker & Mason Seaman, S44: CitrineOS

-Martin Kranzfelder, chargebyte: chargebyte Charge Control C

-Julian Raedel & Janek Metzner, PIONIX: The MicroMegaWatt Charger - a handheld EV protocol tester based on EVerest

-Brian Reeves & David Reeves, Enteligent: Direct DC EV Charging station

The second day of the Open EV Charging Summit featured demos and testing of open source EV charging solutions from a variety of solution providers, including:
-chargebyte
-Enteligent
-PIONIX

This video includes an overview of the solutions tested at the event.

As the electric vehicle (EV) industry continues to surge forward, the demand for efficient, reliable, and robust infrastructure is becoming increasingly more important. Off-the-shelf EV Charging solutions aren’t always enough and a custom solution is required.

This session highlights how a PHYTEC phyCORE-AM62x SOM can be leveraged to accelerate a custom EVSE hardware solution. Topics covered include typical design considerations, component selection, digital and analog circuits, Linux OS and real-time interface selections, and thermal management. Central to this discussion is Design for Software (DfS) principles, which will allow for seamless integration of Pionix EVerest and Basecamp. By minimizing the impact of software you can reduce your overall software development expenses for bring up and maintenance.

Speaker:
Zach Hudson, Embedded Hardware Engineer, PHYTEC

This session will explore how the US Joint Office of Energy & Transportation's Applied Interoperability Project will ensure:
-Any PEV owner can safely plug in anytime and anywhere and be dispatch-able as a 'certified resource’
-That helps electric system operators maintain reliable service while achieving our State RPS and GHG reduction goals
-Seamlessly without confusing the consumer
-Or impacting their transportation needs
-In a way that lowers their total cost of ownership
-Any actor can contract and settle with any other

Speaker:
Stephen Davis, eMobility Lead, Accenture Federal Services

A robust and interoperable charging network is key to increasing electric vehicle (EV) adoption, and by extension, to achieving the transportation decarbonization goals of the United States. To ensure reliability and interoperability in software, the U.S. Government has, in the Code of Federal Regulations, section 680, established minimum standards for the charging software stack. The Joint Office of Energy and Transportation (JOET), through the Applied Interoperability (AI) project, is partnering with stakeholders to create an open-source reference implementation that meets these federal minimum requirements. The reference implementation can provide a focal point to work together to implement complex standards consistently. It can also provide a mechanism to disseminate innovative power management monitoring and control techniques into production and increase vehicle to grid integration. This session will outline JOET and AI goals, highlight how they can be achieved using an open-source reference implementation, and issue a call to action to join the broader community around open source software for EV charging.

Speaker: Dr. K. Shankari, US Joint Office of Energy & Transportation

This session will provide a general overview of how DC charging works, starting with a basic block diagram of a DC charger. It will then explore how to use YETI/YAK dev kits for a basic DC charger prototype, and move into how to configure LF Energy EVerest for DC charging.

Speakers:
-Janek Metzner, PIONIX
-Kai-Uwe Hermann, PIONIX