ENGINEERINGNET.EU - The 'Treaty of Vaals' is a collaboration agreement on 'e-roaming' between the Dutch foundation e-laad, the German cooperation ladenetz.de, the Belgium provider Blue Corner, the Luxembourg company Enovos, the Austrian company Vlotte, the Portugese Mobi.E and the Irish company ESB eCars.
Founded and developed by the three partners ladenetz.de, e-laad and Blue Corner, E-clearing.net is an open European Clearing House System (eCHS), which enables the mutual and international exchange of electric car charging data.
Accessible electric car charging will thus be possible beyond country borders and costs can easily be settled between partners. This makes international charging ready for the future. Besides the current free charging facilities, the system is ready for payments.
The IT-system is based on an open standard, the Open Clearing House Protocol (OCHP), which facilitates automatic data exchange. In addition to that, other countries and organisations can easily join the collaboration.
Thus an open European standard is born and international charging becomes as easy as local charging. The system can be compared to international payment by debit card.
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BACKGROUNDER
Public) charging infrastructure providers are ready to make charging stations available for customers of other service providers (interoperability). Thus e-drivers can charge wherever they are. Drivers can charge in their own country as well as beyond country borders.
Charging at public charging stations is currently free in the different countries, but this will change in the future. Access to each other's charging stations will then not be sufficient. Data exchange about usage will then be necessary, so payments can be settled.
This is similar to international calling and payment by debit card. Payments shall be based on charging transactions, for instance time duration, used kilowatt hours, users (by means of a card), etcetera. This data should be exchanged easily and automatically.
