EV Charger Pairing: Now in Beta
Released
EV Charger Pairing automatically pairs a user's vehicle and charger, unifying control through the Vehicle API to overcome vehicle limitations, increase reliability, and expand the reach of your managed charging programs.
A core component of EV Charger Pairing is the EV System, a logical system that augments the Vehicle API and is:
- Created once as a vehicle and charger are linked to the same user, immediately unlocking vehicle capabilities (like
startChargingfor incapable vehicles). - Activated when the two devices are physically plugged into one another, enabling unified steering, synchronized charging state, and returning the
pluggedInChargerIdandpluggedInVehicleId.
Copy linkKey benefits
- Increase your market reach: Start onboarding users whose vehicles are otherwise incapable for managed charging by leveraging the capabilities of their charger. You no longer need to turn away customers due to their choice of vehicle.
- Improve control performance and reliability: Even for capable vehicles, a paired charger provides faster plug-in detection and a fallback for control commands to improve reliability.
- Capture more flex value: More reliable data and controls enables more sophisticated flex optimizations and value capture.
- Simplify integration: Offload the complexity of pairing logic, merging data, and control routing across a large range of unique devices to Enode so that you can focus on your core product.
Copy linkWhat's new in the Beta?
Key features that were previously available to Early Adopters are now available to all customers including:
- Unlocked capabilities: You can unlock
startCharging,stopChargingandlocationcapabilities for incapable vehicles through the paired charger. - Unified control: We offload the complexity of pairing logic, data merging, and control routing. You only need to interact with the Vehicle API to manage both assets.
- Enhanced performance and reliability: By orchestrating commands across both assets, we ensure the highest possible success rate and provide a seamless fallback if one of the devices is offline. You also benefit from faster plug-in detection and unified charge state.
We have also rolled out a number of bug fixes, product improvements and made it easier for customers to start integrating and testing the solution including:
- Full sandbox support: You can now use Sandbox to test your integration before moving to production. We've added support for managing locations and the common pairing/unpairing flows.
- A new product guide: We have published a comprehensive and completely revamped Product Guide to our public documentation. This guide walks you through the entire process, from initial integration steps to full production rollout.
Copy linkHow do I get started?
EV Charger Pairing is now enabled by default for all new and most of our existing customers on API version 2024-10-01. We first recommend diving straight into our comprehensive Product Guide.
PLEASE NOTE: We've disabled certain features for some customers
To mitigate any risk of disruption for customers who 1) link both vehicles and chargers AND 2) directly control those chargers via our API, we have proactively disabled certain EV Charger Pairing features across all of your API clients. This includes capability unlocking and command orchestration features.
The features released to all customers, including returning the pluggedInChargerId and pluggedInVehicleId on the Vehicle and Charger endpoints respectively and improved charge rate handling, will continue to work as they did before.
Please contact your Customer Success Manager or Support if you would like to enable the full EV charger pairing solution.
Need help integrating?
For technical questions & bug reports, report issues through Zendesk. We're actively developing EV Charger Pairing and welcome your feedback to help shape its future.