The goal of this Agreement is to establish the first industry-recognized, third-party-operated labs in California, and one of the first in the nation, focusing on conducting interoperability testing of EVSEs and EVs in order to achieve broad interoperability and enabling the implementation and demonstration of related beneficial and innovative use cases and technologies. Objectives of the Agreement: The objectives of this Agreement are to: Deploy and develop a space for interoperability testing, standards conformance testing and verification, industry collaboration, and exploration of next-generation charging use cases. Support the interoperability ecosystem across all links as outlined by CEC’s Statement on Charging Interoperability. Provide conformance and certification testing services for EV hardware. Provide testing capabilities for advanced use cases such as bidirectional charging. Collect an extensive dataset of test results to inform on the state of interoperability and the feasibility of advanced use cases
