8 Key Recommendations for fostering eMobility / eRoaming in Slovenia

  1. Think in Systems: Every successful business undertaking shall grow with time and automatically expands its system scope, be it in terms of regions, technologies, customer groups or other. This recommendation therefore aims at decision makers in Slovenia to incorporate this fact into their system design process.
     
  2. Build on Proven Technologies: With regard to eRoaming over the past ten years communication protocol technologies, such as the Open Clearing House Protocol (OCHP) for hub solutions as well as Open Charge Point Interface (OCPI) Protocol for Peer-2-Peer connections enabling boundless electric vehicle charging across charging station networks.have been in practise. This recommendation therefore aims at decision makers in Slovenia to focus protocol technology choices on this fact.
     
  3. Invite different industries: Sustainable emobility capitalises on the expertise of different industries such as charge point manufacturers and operators, automobile OEMs and emobility service providers in addition to IT companies. This recommendation therefore aims at decision makers in Slovenia to form cooperations with companies with a high level of synergy potential.
     
  4. Standardise solutions: One major challenge of maturing businesses is to agree on process standards. Often-a-times, industry stakeholders neglect that the deployment of technology and infrastructure is only one half of the feasibility equation. Point. The other half is the agreement on how processes are going to be transactioned amongst the different stakeholders. This recommendation therefore aims at decision makers in Slovenia to define standard operating procedures at a very early stage.
     
  5. Learn from existing projects: Looking at Germany it kicked off with numerous emobility research and demonstration projects backed by the so-called Konjunkturpaket in 2008. Since then numerous projects have been completetd as well as newly initiated on a European scale, benefitting from EU funding schemes, such as Horizon Europe and others. This recommendation therefore aims at decision makers in Slovenia to get an overview of lessons learned from projects done in the past and focus objectives of ongoing projects.
     
  6. Explore potentials: Each country has different potentials to tap into based on the specific country profile. Slovenia, for example has a strong tourism inflow, a good geographic location, a well-trained workforce, a well connected motorway network and many more aspects that may have a positive impact on its emobility ecosystem. This recommendation therefore aims at decision makers in Slovenia to take the country profile into consideration. 
     
  7. Implement alternatives: Depending on the specific customer requirements and based on the general situation ongrond there may be charging alternatives (AC, DC, HPC) as well as different electric vehicle alternatives (i.e. cars, buses, vans, trucks). This recommendation therefore aims at decision makers in Slovenia to take the demand and supply market characteristics into consideration.
     
  8. Mutually benefit form expertise: Correlating to recommendation no. 1 one realises that each country is at a different development stage with regard to emobility creating a proactive environment of benefitting from individual experiences made. This recommendation therefore aims at decision makers in Slovenia tob e aware oft he fact that communication is key.