This project aims to:

• Serve as a regional and national leader in replicable best practices of next generation Electric Vehicle Support Equipment & Networking (EVSEN) at a representative large electric power user that will provide affordability and accessibility on a sustained basis to a broad spectrum of the population in a manner that benefits the utility grid with an emphasis on renewable energy utilization.
• Demonstrate that a workplace EVSEN that is optimized to serve its fleet can synergistically provides charging accessibility to employees and the public especially the underserved and difficult to penetrate markets of multi-unit dwelling and disadvantaged community residents.
• Validate that public-private-academic-utility technical collaborations can accelerate, broaden and deepen the commercial penetration of EVs for “Early Main Stream Adopters”.
• Become one of the largest, and certainly the most diversified portfolio of EVSEN technologies in the world.

EVgo and UCSD collaborated the on campus deployment of 170 plug & play Level II stub outs that were coupled with 138 commercial ChargePoints, 12 EVgos, plus the demonstration of 26 prototypes of ISO 15118 (KnGrid), 15 Vehicle-to-Grid (Princeton Power, Hitachi, Honda), and 20 Smart Chargers (Nuvve, Shell). Applications include parking structures, police department, low and high rise residential, hospitals, retail, office buildings, ZNE warehouse, coastal access trails, and San Diego’s 4th largest visitor venue. Concurrently, UCSD purchased for its fleet 50 Daimler Smart Cars that are uniquely compliant with ISO 15118. Additionally, UCSD students, faculty, staff and retirees were provide lease/purchase incentives at fleet rates by Nissan, BMW, Daimler, Ford and Honda. SDG&E, San Diego City and UCSD co-founded CleanTech San Diego and Smart City San Diego that emphasizes regional and national leadership in EVSEN policy and development, including efforts with Groundworks San Diego for penetrating the DAC market.

This project has established the “Art of the Possible” for Workplace EVSEN for commercial penetration beyond the Early Adopter Market. The explosive MONTHLY 8% growth rate in EV commuters and MWH dispensed has been dubbed “Tiger by the Tail”. The initial $1M investment of Level II stub outs created a globally unparralled mix of commercial and early prototypes simultaneously serving real world fleet, commuter and public markets. The 3 DCFC EVgo ports integrated with PV and 2nd Life EV batteries to mitigate peak load impacts won the ESNA Outstanding Mobility Award (2016), and the BMW 2nd EV Battery project (2014) and Nuvve V2G (2018) have been ESNA finalist. The CEC sponsored ISO 15118 smart charger demonstration was the largest in the US. The V2G charger portfolio is the 2nd largest in the US. Plug in America named UCSD its first recipient of “Outstanding Organization” and GTM named UCSD its first university “Grid Innovator Award”.