Building a charge BienVEnu: making EV charging at home a reality, by Fanny Granger
tric vehicle) charging solutions in existing residential housing blocks (condominiums, private and social lessors). This three-year project, based in Paris and its outskirts, seeks to simplify the deployment of EVs with innovative technology and an enhanced commercial offer for its easy adoption. Coordinated by Enedis (ex-ERDF),
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it brings together eight firms, big and small: Enedis, Centrale- Supélec, Clem’, G2Mobility, Nexans, Park’n Plug, Tetragora and Trialog. It is part of ADEME’s Investments for the Future Program, and gets support from the Ile de France Region.
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ienVEnu is a demonstra- tor that aims at developing and testing new EV (elec-
THE COMPLEX ISSUE OF RECHARGING IN COLLECTIVE HOUSING The French national legislation supports EVs as one of the main contributors to low carbon politics. In the next few years, residential housing will become the main location for recharging EVs. However, charging EVs in such an urban area remains difficult and expensive, and public charging points can’t assure the ever-growing need by themselves. The BienVEnu project tests
out a number of experimental approaches to solve that problem, and specifically the complex issue of recharging in collective housing. The goal is to recruit 10 buildings by the end of 2016 and have them equipped
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quickly afterwards, allowing time to adapt according to each situation and feedback for the duration of the project. BienVEnu is based on new and smart technologies, including but not limited to smart charging and modularity, making it a viable solution on the long term.
• Smart charging: the infrastruc- ture is made to be efficiently controlled by the way of an algo- rithm developed specifically for this purpose, the use of smart charging points and a “smart box”, allowing for it all to func- tion properly.
• Modularity: most charging sta- tions are built based on the “star”-form or hub. BienVEnu proposes an alternative with a
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