Press Kit
CharIN Testival NORTH AMERICA 2024

CharIN, in collaboration with ChargeX Consortium, is proud to support the charging industry by developing and providing a standard set of interoperability test cases. As part of the upcoming CharIN Testival NORTH AMERICA, a select subset of these testing cases will be implemented. Participants have the exclusive opportunity to engage in prescribed testing sessions, with incentives to those who choose to take part.

Prescribed testing sessions, scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, offer targeted opportunities for Plug & Charge evaluation, with each session allocating 30 minutes for prescribed testing and an additional 60 minutes for ad-hoc testing (standard Testival testing). Moderated by ChargeX national lab engineers, these sessions ensure efficient handling of results data, with benefits including cash rebates, uniform testing approaches, and opportunities to influence testing processes for future advancements in charging technology.

CharIN has extended the scope of the Testival with an additional testing option. Together with our technology partner Hubject, we offer the possibility to perform Plug & Charge end-to-end testing.

What does this mean?

In addition to the Plug & Charge Conformance Testing as part of the standard Testival ticket, you can test the interoperability of Plug & Charge under real conditions. Hubject provides a CPO backend, an eMSP service and a Plug & Charge ecosystem. The CPO Backend and the eMSP Service are connected to the Plug & Charge Ecosystem and participating EVSEs can connect to the CPO Backend via OCPP.

At the upcoming CharIN Testival, for the regular round-robin testing the provision of an Online V2G PKI for PnC vis a CPMS for End2End testing use will be used. This testing option will feature a CPMS Backend, eMSP service, and Plug & Charge ecosystem, where EVSEs can connect to the CPMS Backend via the OCPP standard. Participants are required to complete the onboarding process for both EVSEs and EVs.

Additionally, an exciting new feature, Multi V2G PKI Testing, allows for testing multiple V2G PKIs at a dedicated location, requiring prior EV onboarding. The testing will be conducted at a dedicated test location where separate EVSEs or Test Systems with different V2G PKIs are prepared. Participants are required to complete the onboarding process for EVs, ensuring smooth testing procedures. The testers will receive the opportunity to sign up during the technical registration.

Explore the Cleveland facility on 06/12/2024, equipped with state-of-the-art testing areas and equipment to support EVSE manufacturers’ testing needs.

Step inside the CSA´s cutting-edge testing laboratory, for an exclusive and close-up look at how EV chargers and batteries are rigorously tested. This is your opportunity to gain a better understanding of the applicable standards, specifications, and best practices that guide our testing processes.

Follow the link to the registration page for more information!

On Wednesday, June 12 from 9:00 am-10:00 am, the North America Charging Interoperability (NACI) Task Force will be hosting an open meeting in the Lincoln Electric Auditorium.

Come hear a guest presentation from the ChargeX Hardware Taskforce on Existing Reliability Activities and Future Work, and obtain updates about the latest Task Force activities related to the standardization of SAE J3400.

You do not need to be a CharIN NACI Task Force member to attend.

On Wednesday, June 12 from 10:00 am-5:00 pm, the ChargeX and SAE-ITC teams will be staffing an exhibitor booth to discuss future testing activities to support the development of the J3400, J3400/1, and UL 2252.

The ChargeX team has completed a failure modes and effects analysis and identified several recommendations to these standards to support long-term reliability and adapter safety. Participants will be able to review the teardown work completed for existing adapters on the market and understand how the recommendations were developed. This activity will allow for feedback and discussion of the planned ChargeX evaluations to improve this work and ensure that the CharIN, SAE-ITC, and ChargeX activities are in alignment with the most critical activities to promote a safe, robust, and reliable evolution of the charging ecosystem.

Please stop by the ChargeX & SAE-ITC booth to provide your perspectives and information that will help support these activities.

Come join QualityLogic on Wednesday, June 12 at 11am after the Testival kick-off in the exhibitor area of the Grand Tent to see a demonstration of the recently introduced CCS Charging Session Analyzer.

This is a new class of tool designed to automate the analysis of charging session PCAP files to identify the root cause of failures and collect other important charging session data such as timings of charging session stages. It complements existing interop test tools and improves the efficiency by a factor of 10-30X. This hardware agnostic analyzer fills a critical gap in today’s tool set for reducing CCS charging interoperability issues.

Join JOET on Wednesday, June 12 from 1:45-2:00 PM at the ChargeX exhibitor booth under the Grand Tent to see a demonstration of a basic end-to-end smart charging software stack. Smart Charging, as part of ISO 15118-2 and OCPP 2.0.1, is required by NEVI as of Feb. 28, 2024.

JOET is implementing the OCPP 2.0.1 smart charging functional group in the open-source EVerest project. The demo will start with Appenzell – a standalone tool that can accept a set of OCPP charging schedules and output a composite schedule, both as JSON and as an hourly csv grid. The charging profiles will then be sent to a CSMS, which will push them to the station. When a simulated EV plugs in, either through AC or DC, it will receive a ChargeParameterDiscoveryResponse with the appropriate Pmax SASchedule.

After the demo concludes, JOET staff will be available to answer questions about the demo, Smart Charging or EVerest.

Join ChargeX Consortium members on Wednesday, June 12 from 3:00 pm-3:15 pm at the BTC Power testing area #25, along with Electrify America and Ford Motor Company, to demonstrate seamless retry - an automated resolution process for errors that can be resolved by manual unplug and re-plug to successfully charge.

This is accomplished through an automated retry mechanism that activates upon encountering errors during the EV charging Process and eliminates the need for the customer to unplug and re-plug.

In addition to the demonstration, a technical best practice draft document is available for review. To receive a copy, contact Ed Watt at Edward.watt@nrel.gov.

Join ChargeX Consortium members on Wednesday, June 12 from 3:15 pm-3:30 pm at the ChargeX exhibitor booth under the Grand Tent for a demonstration on the Remote Test Harness (RTH) - a new innovative technology that allows for remote charge discovery to occur between an EV and EVSE in different locations.

The goal of this technology is not to replace conventional testing equipment, but rather to act as an additional tool for testers. Developed in the Testing Task Force, the RTH has undergone an architecture design review, network testing, and is now a proof of concept build ready for showcase.