Electric car giants, the Renault Nissan Alliance, PSA Peugeot Citroen and Mitsubishi Motors have teamed up in support of the ‘EV Ready’ conformity scheme.
Originally developed by Renault and Schneider Electric, EV Ready is designed to promote harmonisation of public recharging infrastructure; to make it possible for all makes of electric cars to use charging posts anywhere across Europe.
While keeping an eye on further development of IEC61851-1 ed2.1 standard, which is currently in progress, the collaboration of car makers aim to complete the development a validation scheme in the coming months.
First launched in June 2010, the scheme intended to develop the benchmark in the field of charging systems for electric vehicles.
Already over sixty European companies, ranging from energy providers, network operators, suppliers and installers of charging stations are already working to develop and adopt EV Ready as the standard.
Back by the biggest players in the electric vehicle field, the scheme would make it easier for electric car drivers to use public charging points. Electric cars such as the Nissan Leaf, Renault Fluence, Peugeot iON, Citroen C-Zero and Mitsubishi i-MiEV are currently produced by the car makers driving this scheme.
