Interest groups

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Charging, batteries, home charging, buying and running costs, software — there is a group for most of it, and each one is a standing conversation you can join whenever you like.

Battery Health & Second Life

State-of-health measurement, warranty practice, and what happens to a pack after the vehicle — reuse, repurposing and recycling routes.

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Charging Hardware Reliability

Failure modes, spares, field data and the reliability benchmarks members publish to each other.

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Charging Network Operations

Day-to-day operation of public charging networks: uptime, field maintenance, fault triage and the shared operational metrics members report against.

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Charging Standards & Protocols

Protocol versions, conformance and the interoperability problems members hit in the field. Feeds the community's standards positions.

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Data & Telemetry

What vehicles and chargers report, who may see it, and the common data model members are converging on.

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Depot & Home Charging

Charging away from the public network: depots, workplaces and homes, and the metering and reimbursement questions that follow.

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Energy Procurement Task Force

A time-limited group on power purchase agreements and hedging for charging operators. Reports at the end of the year and closes.

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Fleet Electrification Council

For members running vehicles at scale — depot planning, duty cycles, total cost of ownership and the practicalities of moving a fleet across.

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Grid Connection & Capacity

Connection queues, capacity constraints and the conversation with distribution network operators. Includes the shared position on flexible connections.

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Heavy Duty & Commercial Vehicles

Trucks, buses and vans: megawatt charging, route planning and depot power.

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Insurance, Repair & Bodyshops

Premiums, repairability and write-off thresholds. Brings insurers, bodyshop networks and the testing houses into one room, because none of them can answer the pack-damage question alone.

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Management Board

The board seats reserved for full and limited partner members. Sets the work programme and the budget.

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Payments & Customer Experience

Paying for a charge: contactless, apps, roaming tariffs, price transparency and the complaints that follow when it goes wrong.

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Ports, Airports & Logistics Hubs

Electrification of freight and passenger nodes — ports, airports, rail terminals and distribution parks. Shore power, ground handling and the shared substation problem.

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Public Policy & Incentives

Purchase incentives, infrastructure funding and regulation. Prepares the community's consultation responses.

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Roaming & Interoperability

Roaming agreements between networks, hub models, settlement and the member-to-member issues that only surface in practice.

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Safety, Testing & Homologation

Type approval, thermal safety, first-responder guidance and the test protocols members share. The testing houses convene here.

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Skills & Workforce Task Force

A time-limited group on the technician shortage — training routes, certification and apprenticeships.

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Smart Charging & Vehicle-to-Grid

Smart charging, tariffs and vehicle-to-grid: what members can already sell back, what the metering has to prove, and where the trials keep stalling. Distinct from Grid Connection, which deals with getting connected in the first place.

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Sustainability & Materials

Materials sourcing, carbon accounting across the supply chain, and the reporting members are being asked for.

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How a group works

A group is simply a place where members with the same obsession talk to each other. Some meet in person a few times a year, some live entirely in the messages, and most do a bit of both. Anything genuinely useful that comes out of one gets written up and shared with everybody.

Joining one

Members can join any group that is open, and you can be in as many as you like. If you cannot see one for the thing you care about, say so — most of these started because somebody asked.