DPI platform in works to find closest EV charging spot, more
digital public good which will let customers locate an EV charging station, green energy sources, and used idle batteries across the country.
Called the Unified Energy Interface (UEI), the initiative is powered by Beckn Protocol, and it will allow a user to search for EV charging stations nearby and settle payments across service providers. Beckn Protocol is an open-source initiative created by the Foundation for Interoperability in Digital Economy (FIDE).
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Sujith Nair, co-creator, Beckn Protocol, told ET, “Between these companies – Pulse Energy, Sheru, Turno, and Kazam – an open network called UEI demonstrated multiple green energy use cases in a concept simulation. First use case was to discover EV charging stations operated by any Charge Point Operators, with any consumer app, like a WhatsApp chatbot.”
Pulse Energy, an EV charger aggregator, volunteered with FIDE to create a community sandbox for UEI that was demonstrated along with other EV startups like Kazam, Sheru and Turno to FIDE cofounder Nandan Nilekani on February 6.
On UEI, one could search for all EV charging stations nearby. The
