EPRI’s EVs2Scale2030™ initiative is a three-year commitment focused on leveraging industry scale to galvanize and align critical market stakeholders as electric vehicles are deployed at scale to achieve 2030 electrification goals. EPRI will leverage its industry partnerships to mobilize utilities, fleet operators, the automotive industry, and charging providers, and coordinate with federal agencies and labs, to support the rapid deployment of millions of electric vehicles – while minimizing grid impacts and enabling critical benefits to the nation’s grid.
THIS TRANSITION IS UNPRECEDENTED AND COMPLEX. IT REQUIRES:
Extraordinary collaboration and partnering across all the major EV stakeholder groups
Extraordinary collaboration and partnering across all the major EV stakeholder groups
Redesigned process, useful tools, and increased standardization to simplify the planning and complex interactions between major stakeholder groups.
EPRI’s EVs2Scale2030™ Three-Pillar Strategy:
Coalitions and Roadmaps
The outcomes from this pillar frame the 2030 challenge by creating a definitive and multi-stakeholder 50-state roadmap that lays out year-over-year industry/government-driven vehicle electrification goals, charging infrastructure and grid needs, utility lead times, workforce requirements, and costs.
Structural System Reforms
This pillar will identify and/or create the systems and processes needed to support the pace of activity and investment required to meet largescale electrification by 2030. Topics include grid interconnection, charger maintenance and reliability, affordability, equity, workforce development, and regulations.
Unifying Tools and Pilots
This work delivers a set of tools and pilots critical to meeting and sustaining large-scale electrification objectives, and includes establishing a secure data exchange platform to allow utilities to better plan and invest in grid upgrades a national repository of industry and NEVI-compliant EVSE charging and networking equipment, and validating best practices for EV resilience and evacuations at scale during widespread power outages
Goals and Benefits:
EVs2Scale2030 Goals:
- Ensure utilities and oversight bodies are in lockstep with vehicle manufacturers, fleet operators, charging providers and consumers to build confidence in achieving 2030 goals.
- Streamline the systems and processes needed to support the pace of activity and investment required to meet large-scale electrification by 2030.
- • Develop the needed tools and technologies required to enable and sustain EVs at scale and capture the grid benefits of this large and flexible load.
EVs2Scale2030 Benefits:
- Validated data and best practices to share with utilities and utility oversight bodies to describe grid needs for EVs at scale and be better equipped to execute planning for widescale
- Better customer support for EV drivers, fleet operators, and underserved communities enabled by programs developed using the initiative’s research and knowledge.