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SAE solutions for
COVER STORY
Sustainable Mobility
Sustainable successes thus far
SAE/InnoEnergy Battery Academy: A
comprehensive, 22-course training program
to advance fundamental knowledge
and skills for practical application
in the e-mobility and battery industries.
The program offers more than 200
CEU-qualified hours covering theoretical,
technical and application-based
knowledge on battery fundamentals,
grid and utility energy storage, EV batteries,
battery management systems,
and cybersecurity and energy data.
SAE partner Netherlands-based EIT
InnoEnergy is a leading innovation engine
in sustainable energy, bringing the
technology and knowledge and skills
training required to accelerate progress
towards decarbonization goals and
improve energy security.
SAE/Public Key Infrastructure projects:
SAE is organizing the international
EV charging sector, as well as
public and research ensuring the interface
points between EV drivers and
EV charging infrastructure are secure
and trusted-the critical connection
between the mobility and energy inBattery
harmonization
Sustainability is an international initiative for SAE. In early April, the
SMS team and SAE's ITC engaged with the U.S. DoE and the
European Commission to form a working group for contributing to
the EU's recently launched Battery Passport. Conceived by the Global
Battery Alliance in 2019, Battery Passport is a multi-stakeholder collaboration
across the battery value chain. It is aimed at establishing
key sustainability performance indicators related to the battery carbon
footprint and child labor and human rights due diligence, as set
out in the Greenhouse Gas rulebook and the Child Labor and Human
Rights indices. Sharing this data with OEMs will enable them " to
make more informed purchasing decisions and drive sustainable
sourcing, processing and manufacturing practices in the industry in
the future, " the GBA said in a release.
" Because SAE is a neutral organization and we think on a global
level, we're looking for ways to harmonize that [the Battery
Passport] with the rest of the world because countries and regions
have different regulations and requirements, " he said. " Industry
operates slightly differently. But that doesn't mean we can't leverage
work that's going on in other areas into the U.S. and into the
rest of the world. "
Industry's reaction to SAE's new Sustainable Mobility Solutions
venture has been overwhelmingly positive, according to Menchaca.
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dustries. PKI is a best practice used
across industries to ensure a high level
of trust between entities in an ecosystem
by providing message authentication
among trusted devices. SAE's
PKI Cooperative Research Projects
(CRP) are joint ventures with industry
partners that perform targeted, precompetitive
research to develop solutions.
An ongoing project with the
National Renewable Energy
Laboratory (NREL) encompasses the
designing and testing of a worldwide
EV charging platform that is secure,
robust, scalable, and interoperable.
The project is intended to deliver an
operational PKI method agnostic to
the charging platform that is available
to industry worldwide.
SAE/Dekra on global EV regs,
standards and cyber: Three new online
professional courses from SAE
and its partner Dekra, a Stuttgartbased
international organization
known for its testing and certification,
include 'Introduction to the Electric
Vehicle Infrastructure' (a course that
looks at global regulations and standards),
a course on cybersecurity related
to EV charging, and a course in
DC fast charging.
Lindsay Brooke
" We have found industry willing and open to working
with us in a collaborative way. For example, a dozen
companies gave their time on a voluntary basis to
work with us on the technical study of EV charging
reliability. They are very much in tune with the directions
we're taking - we're taking a lot of cues in that
direction from industry. We're in a constant dialogue. "
Menchaca's vision for SMS in the near term includes
mapping of new industrial processes aimed at
making the transportation sector more sustainable.
One is embedding the full battery lifecycle part into
engineers' design and development work. Another
aspiration is the design and deployment of " a very
reliable EV charging system " in the U.S. And
Menchaca concedes that sustainability extends beyond
the batteries-and-EVs realm. It includes emerging
concerns such as water use in semiconductor
manufacturing and lithium processing, and sourcing
truly recyclable plastics in vehicles.
" We have to think holistically;. sustainability is not
one process or sector, " he said. " I'd love to see sustainability
embedded in every business unit within SAE, all
pointed to one direction: to help the transportation
industry on its journey to net-zero emissions. "
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