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Electric cleaning vehicles
ensure clean streets

Controlled charging thanks to charge controller in Barcelona

Hydra Power uses CarMedialab’s charge controller in street cleaning vehicles. The system links internal control units, such as the battery management system via ISO 15118 and IEC 61851, with the charging infrastructure for the charging process. A special feature of the system is the integrated mobile radio interface, which can be used for remote diagnosis of the charging process, individual control units or via the many CAN interfaces of the entire vehicle.

Hydra Vehicles in Barcelona
These vehicles clean streets in Barcelona 

About “Cuidem Barcelona Residus” (Let’s take care of Barcelona’s waste)

Our customer Hydra Power develops, produces and markets hydraulic and pneumatic systems. In the Cuidem Barcelona Residus project, they are using the Flea as a charge controller. The project aims to improve the cleaning and maintenance of public places in the city.

To learn more about our software stacks for smart charging or our embedded systems, you can arrange a personal meeting here.

Get the Update: ISO 15118:20

A new version is released and will be available from CarMedialab this summer

ISO 15118:20 is an important communication standard that offers many new possibilities for electric vehicles.

This can be divided into four major functionality sections: 

  1. AC for alternating current charging
  2. DC for direct current charging
  3. wireless power transfer (WPT) for inductive charging and
  4. Automatic Connecting Device Pantograph for charging communication via pantograph charging infrastructure

Bidirectional charging represents a sought-after technical advancement in the new standard. It enables both the charging of a vehicle and the feeding of energy back into the grid. 

software stack charging
The new software is soon available for charging stations

The CarMedialab release is already available from the end of June. Ask now!

Read more about ISO 15118 here:

https://www.carmedialab.com/en/products/smart-charging/software-stack-iso-15118/

Here you can find all information:

https://www.iso.org/standard/77845.html

OppCharge technology on e-buses in Milan

Smart charging of buses with “OppCharge”
Alstom – a world leader in railroad technology – manufactures, among many other things, streetcars and trains for mass transit. Thanks to our charge controller, smart charging for buses has been made possible.

Sketch of an e-bus with pantograph
(Source: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Opportunity-charging_fig2_351210637)

OppCharge and Pantograph
Here, charging is done with so-called “Opportunity Charging”, among experts this is called: OppCharge. This refers to opportunity charging of the batteries of buses or trucks: With this technology, they are recharged with high energy at terminal stations or selected locations. The challenge here is to transfer a lot of energy in a short time. The connection is made by conductive poles and rails on the vehicle as well as Wifi communication and control within an automatic connection system. For charging, the pantograph is moved to the contact point on the roof of the vehicle. 

The charging process works

Successful acceptance test on site
With our valuable client we’ve performed successful acceptance test onsite. This was to verify that the application works as planned for the customer. Smart Charging from CarMedialab offers embedded systems that can be integrated into both the vehicle and the charging pole. For vehicle and charging pole to harmonize, software and hardware must be in perfect harmony. Our software stacks help to make this possible.

OppCharge charging process with pantograph

Here you can read more about our software stacks:

https://www.carmedialab.com/en/produkte/smartcharging/

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Charge and save: If not now, when?

Why electric driving is coming to the fore in light of rising gasoline prices
In fact, electric cars are increasingly performing better when you add up all the costs of owning a car. Although they usually have higher initial costs, they are significantly more economical, for example in terms of maintenance: Savings of up to 35 percent can be achieved here. In the long term, therefore, the price difference compared to diesel or gasoline vehicles can be compensated for in the acquisition costs. Nevertheless, there are more and more cheaper electric cars on the market with a subsidy of up to 9,000 euros. In addition to the purchase price, there are other factors that come into play.

Taxes
The benefits don’t end with the purchase. Up to ten years of exemption from vehicle tax, depending on the time of registration, can be granted. As a company car with private use, only 0.25 percent of the gross list price even has to be taxed.

Source: https://energyload.eu/elektromobilitaet/ladestationen-infrastruktur/elektroauto-laden/

Charging costs
Not only the billing model is decisive for pricing, but also how high the charging power in kW is at the charging point, how fast you can charge and which car you drive. The efficiency of the energy is very high.

What is unbeatable, however, is that vehicles can charge for free at some supermarkets, for example, while gasoline or diesel are not available for free. Otherwise, of course, the tariff in one’s own household determines further costs, while prices at public charging stations vary widely.

Maintenance
Due to the fact that electrically powered vehicles contain fewer parts that are susceptible to wear, maintenance is a big plus point. Technical inspections are also less expensive, since the exhaust emission test is no longer required.

So what’s stopping you? CarMedialab supports charging station manufacturers with software and manages charging processes to make electric driving possible.

Author: Annalena Krause

Interoperability test ✓

ISO 15118 e-mobility experts from different companies met at the Testival Europe 2021 in Stuttgart to perform ISO 15118 interoperability tests. In order for CCS to become globally accepted, it is of major importance to achieve and prove perfect interoperability between all CCS-equipped vehicles and CCS chargers. For SEW Eurodrive we were able to provide the appropriate software stacks and charging controllers for BMW, Porsche, Jaguar Land Rover, DEKRA, Mercedes Benz and VW. CarMedialab was able to perform successfully exciting test cases like Inductive Charging, Plug and Charge and High Power Charging. The results were great and are another step into the future.


https://www.charin.global/events/testival-europe/

Impressionen beim Testen

Impressionen beim Testen

Impressionen beim Testen

Impressionen beim Testen
Impressions during testing

Innovative German-French Collaboration

Inductive Smart Charging based on ISO 15118
Through an international “out of the box” collaboration with our French partners Centum AdeneoEFI Automotive, Magtech and  Laboratoire Ampère we were able to develop an innovative inductive charging system. Through this successful cooperation, we can thus bring an efficient, modular and cost-effective inductive charging system to the global market.

EMCC is part of an international cooperation project “AllFraTech”. The Cluster Electric Mobility Southwest intensifies its cooperation relations with relevant stakeholders in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region through the cross-border cooperation project “Franco-German Alliance for Innovative Mobility Technologies (AllFraTech)“. The jointly established cooperation strategy is the basis in the subsequent implementation phase for cross-border research and development projects on current issues relating to future mobility technologies.

Inductive Charging of e-Vehicles on the Model

CarMedialab supports research and development of smart charging for a more efficient and greener mobility of the future. For this we offer a prototype for inductive charging under ISO 15118. See for yourself:

The model vehicle was created in collaboration with our partners. Small-scale modeling gives us the opportunity to test the processes of inductive charging in real conditions and to optimize them.

Inductive charging offers the possibility to charge the
le more effectively and comfortably.

Dimitri Shkadarevich​

We are excited about further research projects at our company. For the future of electromobility – for our future.