DriVe2X

DriVe2X will develop new knowledge, tools, models, and technologies to cope with a V2X-based mass EV deployment in the future. It will study and consolidate the understanding of the behavioral uncertainties linked to V2X and develop policy tools to support increasingly complex decisions on V2X roll-out in European smart cities. DriVe2X will implement advanced artificial intelligence techniques that efficiently capture the flexible energy potential from smart charging in building parking lots, homes, and charging stations, and match it with the distribution networks’ localized needs in order to research dynamic marketplaces for exchanging and trading V2X flexibility locally. DriVe2X will develop next-generation slow, lower-cost bidirectional charger units (from TRL3 to TRL7), tested under different use cases in five demonstrators. DriVe2X embraces the EV user’s perceptions and expectations as critical success factors in V2X uptake and upscaling to a mass deployment future. Thus, DriVe2X innovates by inquiring and eliciting the social determinants of V2X, explicitly including it in the development of novel V2X technologies, tools, and solutions. DriVe2X has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and Innovation programme under grant agreement N°101056934.