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Non-ev industry folks often express the idea that "EVs and EV charging are cutting edge and are fast evolving". I hear that a lot. Well, this sentiment is largely true for Electric Vehicles. Battery tech and motor tech are surely advancing rapidly. However all these are not really true for EV charging. In EV charging, many of the core tech came to existence decades back. CCS, the most popular charger-to-vehicle communication standard was unveiled in 2011. Similarly, OCPP 1.5: 2012 OCPP 1.6: 2015 ISO 15118: 2010 Type 2 connector: 2009 If they are this old, why are we still using them? This is because EV charging needs to "comply" with the surrounding technologies. A charger should be able to reliably talk to the vehicle as well as the cloud backend to facilitate a charging session. EV chargers are built using a particular technology. Altering that tech is quite expensive and impractical since there are huge number of existing charging stations that use the existing technology. Also the resistance from charger/cms developers. So the innovation in EV charging mass market is effectively low. There are exceptions like NACS which are geographically limited. Not to mention Tesla had 360 degree access to the tech so they could change things the way they saw fit. So how do we innovate? How to add geographically relevant features in EV charging? How to add EV roaming? What about UPI payments? How to enable Autocharge in EV Roaming scenario? How to improve charger reliability & reliability monitoring? There are probably two ways 1) Create a charging protocol compatible with OCPP (the global charging standard protocol) and transparently add these features. 2) Create a new roaming protocol or adopt one from the existing ones. Then ask every potential partner to implement it. We at Deepfleet have majorly leaned towards the first approach and have built OCP3, a 100% OCPP compatible EV Roaming Protocol - so it works with every company in the value chain. This was an entirely new exercise globally and we learned a lot from jumping into it. Our goal was to make sure none of our partners need to change their engineering, operations or product to work with us. Roamcharge is truly a modern, nocode energy marketplace platform. We aggregate both supply and demand from partner companies and maintain our B2B play. More importantly, this new tech works beautifully. #evroaming, #evcharging #ev #cpo #chargingnetworks