The consortium
Together, let’s drive towards a sustainable and interconnected future!
By uniting stakeholders across the charging ecosystem’s value chain, Mobena-X offers access to a select group of partners dedicated to developing interoperable solutions. The consortium includes 15 operational partners, such as EV and charging station manufacturers, CPOs, eMSPs, PKI providers, roaming operators, energy experts, and technology suppliers. This smooth coordination within the ecosystem facilitates the harmonized deployment of high-value-added smart charging services across Europe.
Mobena-X is also actively involved in several organizations, including EU DG MOVE/DG ENER STF, CharIN, OCA, Think Smartgrids, AVERE, UFE, GIMELEC, and ISO/IEC, AFIREV, CSIAM, MEDEE, PFA, Sigeif.
Partners
RESEARCH & INNOVATION
- Name: Vedecom
- Description: Vedecom was created in February 2014 and is an Institute for Energy Transition (ITE) established as part of the French government’s ‘Investment for the future plan’ (Programme d’Investissements d’Avenir or PIA). The Institute is dedicated to sustainable and innovative mobility, more environmentally-friendly, autonomous and with improved sharing. Based on an unprecedented collaboration of more than 50 players, it gathers academic establishments, local authorities and private actors involved in mobility evolution: automotive, transport and mobility, logistics, road infrastructure, telecommunications, energy, aeronautics and defence, digital services and simulation, insurance.
OPERATIONAL PARTNERS
CHARGING INFRASTRUCTURE
- Name: Hager
- Description: Hager is a leading supplier of solutions and services for electrical installations in residential, commercial and industrial buildings. Hager brand, with products ranging from energy distribution through cable management and wiring accessories to building automation and security systems, represents the core business of the company. Together with the customers from industry and the electrical trade, we are working on future topics such as electro-mobility, Ambient Assisted Living, where building automation facilitates the everyday life of the elderly and individuals who require care, and on the networking of energy-efficient housing, which will provide greater comfort while requiring less energy consumption.
- Name: Legrand
- Description: Legrand is a global specialist in electrical and digital building infrastructures, dedicated to supporting technological, societal and environmental change around the globe. Our purpose is to improve lives by transforming the spaces where people live, work and meet by delivering electrical and digital infrastructures and connected solutions that are simple, innovative and sustainable. With nearly 38,000 employees around the world, we work hard every day to make the buildings of tomorrow more sustainable for everyone.
- Name: Schneider Electric
- Description: Schneider’s purpose is to create Impact by empowering all to make the most of our energy and resources, bridging progress and sustainability. At Schneider, we call this Life Is On. Our mission is to be the trusted partner in Sustainability and Efficiency. We are a global industrial technology leader bringing world-leading expertise in electrification, automation and digitization to smart industries, resilient infrastructure, future-proof data centers, intelligent buildings, and intuitive homes. Anchored by our deep domain expertise, we provide integrated end-to-end lifecycle AI enabled Industrial IoT solutions with connected products, automation, software and services, delivering digital twins to enable profitable growth for our customers.
OEM
- Name: Renault group
- Description: Renault Group is a French multinational automobile manufacturer established in 1899. The company designs, manufactures, and markets a diverse range of vehicles under four complementary brands: Renault, Dacia, Alpine, and Mobilize. Renault Group is committed to developing innovative, cleaner, safer, and more inclusive mobility solutions, aiming to become a next-generation, high-tech, low-carbon automotive company.
- Name: Stellantis
- Description: Stellantis is a constellation of 14 iconic automotive brands and two mobility arms that are about more than transportation: they’re about moving people and making connections. As we transform into a sustainable mobility tech company, we are guided by the clear vision of our Dare Forward 2030 strategic plan, which paves the way for Stellantis to achieve carbon net zero by 2038. We are leading the charge in electrification and software development, with cutting-edge technologies at the heart of our products and services. Fully committed to our customers and backed by partners that are leaders in their industries, we aim to develop, engineer, manufacture, and scale the best breakthroughs in all facets of sustainable mobility from autonomous, connected, electrified, shared and pre-owned vehicles to micro-mobility, commercial vehicles, and even electric aircraft.
OPERATORS
- Name: Freshmile
- Description: Freshmile has specialised in electric vehicle charging since 2010. Freshmile offers a mobility solution for users and provides a charging infrastructure management platform. Our mission: to make recharging easy and enjoyable for everyone! With the Freshmile Pass, electric vehicle drivers can use more than 450,000 charging points in France and Europe.
- Name: Total Energies
- Description: TotalEnergies is a global integrated energy company that produces and markets energies: oil and biofuels, natural gas and green gases, renewables, and electricity. With over 100,000 employees in around 120 countries, TotalEnergies is committed to providing energy that is more reliable, affordable, and sustainable. The company places sustainability at the heart of its strategy, aiming for carbon neutrality by 2050, together with society.
- Name: Vinci Energies
- Description: In an ever-changing world, VINCI Energies is speeding up the environmental transition by implementing two major changes: digital and energy. Its teams deploy tailor-made technologies and multi-technical solutions, from design to construction, operation and maintenance. Anchored in their regions, agile and innovative, its 2,000 companies are at the heart of their customers’ energy choices, their infrastructures and their processes, making them more reliable, more efficient and more sustainable every day. VINCI Energies aims to deliver a global performance that is attentive to the planet, useful to people and supportive of communities.
- Name: WattzHub
- Description: WattzHub is a European eMobility operator committed to advancing electric vehicle charging solutions. We are actively involved in Plug & Charge technology as a Mobena consortium partner, working to enhance seamless user experiences. Our EV24 user support service offers round-the-clock assistance to drivers, while our services, including CPO, eMSP, Smart-Charging, and Flexee, ensure efficient management of charging stations and electric vehicle fleets. Additionally, we collaborate closely with energy power companies to drive innovation in the eMobility sector.
ROAMING PLATFORM & PnC ECOSYSTEM SERICE PROVIDER
- Name: Gireve
- Description: Gireve is a European leader for new mobility intermediation. The company has been aggregating, processing and enriching data for more than 10 years to offer B2B services that meet the evolving needs of its clients. At the heart of exchanges, GIREVE combines multiple sources of data to shed light on the uses of mobility and build predictive models on tomorrow’s behaviours. Thanks to its knowledge of the emobility field and how charging usage evolves, Gireve can support its clients in their development and strategic orientation issues to accelerate their activity and build with them a sustainable, innovative and accessible mobility for all.
- Name: Hubject
- Description: We are a global eMobility expert and provide smart business solutions that leverage digital mobility worldwide. Our mission: jumpstart the EV industry and redefine the future of mobility for all of us. Our offices in Berlin, Los Angeles, and Shanghai stand for great commitment, digital expertise, and a pioneering spirit.
TECHNOLOGY SUPPLIERS
- Name: Thalès
- Description: Thales is a world leader in high technology with more than 81,000 employees on every continent. The Group invests in digital and deep tech innovations – big data, artificial intelligence, connectivity, cybersecurity and quantum – to build a future of trust, essential to the development of our societies, by placing people at the heart of decision-making. Thales offers solutions, services and products that help its customers – companies, organisations and governments – in five major markets that are vital to the functioning of our societies: digital identity and security, defence, aeronautics, space and transport.
- Name: Etas
- Description: Mobility is experiencing fundamental change, with software taking center stage. ETAS enables its customers to master the complexity of the entire software lifecycle, thus contributing to the vision of the fully programmable vehicle of the future. ETAS software development tools and cloud platform services provide continuous software integration across all vehicle domains and generations and enable fast, data-driven development, efficient deployment and management as well as safe and secure operation of vehicle software.
TESTING SPECIALISTS
- Name: Vector
- Description: For more than 35 years, Vector has been your capable partner in the development of automotive electronics. More than 4,500 employees at 33 locations worldwide support manufacturers and suppliers of the automotive industry and related industries with a professional platform of tools, software components and services for developing embedded systems. Driven by our passion for technology we develop solutions which relieve engineers of their demanding tasks. Not only do our employees work on tomorrow’s electronic technologies every single day. We also engage variously in education, research and social responsibility.
- Name: Transpolis
- Description: Transpolis is a unique test center for innovation and development in the field of safe and sustainable vehicles and infrastructures. Our 200 hectares of state-of-the-art testing facilities are located in the crossroad of Europe, close to Lyon in France. As a Technical Service for the French State, ISO 17025 accredited by COFRAC, Transpolis provides approval for a large scope of regulations. The vehicle testing lab supports customers from development with a strong ADAS expertise, to validation of Euro NCAP protocols for passenger cars, vans and trucks. Transpolis Road infrastructure laboratory is also accredited ISO 17025 and our scope covers international standards (EN 1317, MASH, ISO 22343). We perform real crash tests to evaluate the safety devices and we support our customers with virtual testing. Transpolis also manufactures and sales the APTS : a unique sensor which evaluates the pressure applied by the safety belt on the abdominal and pelvic region during a crash-test. Innovative projects are welcome by hosting research demonstrators and experiments: partnership projects with academic research and industrial on different topics such as Energy and carbon free mobility, C-ITS & Cybersecurity.
INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERS
E-MOBILITY
- Name: PFA
- Description: The PFA brings together the automotive industry in France. It is responsible for defining and implementing the industry’s strategy in terms of innovation, competitiveness, employment and skills, and for conveying the industry’s voice. Since 4 December 2017, the PFA has been chaired by Luc Chatel and its governance is based on a Council of Presidents made up of the heads of French carmakers and equipment manufacturers (RENAULT, STELLANTIS, VALEO, FORVIA, MICHELIN, PLASTIC OMNIUM), and federations (CCFA, FIEV, FFC, FIM, GPA, SNCP).
- Name: CSIAM
- Description: Created in September 1921, the Chambre Syndicale Internationale de l’Automobile et du Motocycle (CSIAM) represents international manufacturers in France in the fields of motorised two-wheelers, light vehicles and industrial vehicles (trucks, buses, coaches). With 85 member brands, it covers more than 60% of national registrations, playing a key role in the French automotive industry.
- Name: Avere
- Description: A centre for information, exchange and expertise, Avere-France is a national association set up in 1978 at the instigation of the European Commission. Its mission is to encourage and promote the acquisition and use of electric and hybrid vehicles, in particular by stimulating and supporting the deployment of electric mobility among local authorities and businesses. It brings together the players in the electric mobility ecosystem: vehicle manufacturers, charging operators and mobility operators, equipment manufacturers, manufacturers of recharging solutions, energy suppliers, installers, maintainers, electric vehicle users, consultancies and lawyers, local authorities (energy syndicate, AODE, metropolis, conurbation), insurance companies, banks, associations, and research organisations.
INFRASTRUCTURE
- Name: Gimelec
- Description:GIMELEC brings together companies in the French electronic and digital sector. Our 210 members design, manufacture and deploy solutions for the electrification, decarbonisation and digital intelligence of industry, buildings and energy and digital infrastructures.
- Name: Sigeif
- Description: Sigeif Mobilités is a semi-public company set up by Sigeif, Caisse des Dépôts and the Region to develop clean mobility in the IDF. It builds clean mobility infrastructures in the Ile-de-France region.
ENERGY
- Name: Think smartgrids
- Description: Established in April 2015, Think Smartgrids aims to develop the smart grids sector in France and to promote French solutions in Europe and around the world. With the objective of creating a “French Team” for smart grids, the professional association Think Smartgrids supports the development of the smart grids sector in France and develops international collaborations. Think Smartgrids association was created in response to the smart grids roadmap for a New Industrial France called for by the French government and presented on May 7th 2014 to the then President of the Republic, François Hollande, by Dominique Maillard (then Chairman of the French TSO RTE and leader of the “Smart Grid” plan).
- Name: Medee
- Description: Since 2010, MEDEE – Motors and Electrical Devices for Energy Efficiency – brings together companies and academics around collaborative Research & Development & Innovation (R&D&I) projects. Based in Lille, MEDEE federates a community of actors specialized in electrical engineering: multinational companies, innovative SMEs, start-ups, laboratories, and universities. The Cluster MEDEE R&D&I topics are related to several sectors and target markets: industrial processes energy efficiency, electricity generation from renewable sources, Smart Transmission System, and transportation (rail, More Electric Aircraft, electrical vehicle…).
- Name: UFE
- Description: The Union of the French Electricity Industry is the trade association of the French electricity sector. We represent companies from the whole value chain of the electricity industry: producers, transmission and distribution system operators, suppliers of electricity and energy efficiency services. We bring together more than 500 companies, gathering more than 300 000 direct and indirect jobs. UFE is a French and European actor of major importance, committed to the fight against climate change. We are committed to accelerating the transition towards a carbon-neutral economy. We also represent employers of the electricity sector in the branch of gas and electricity industries.
What is it to be a partner?
- Co-creating innovative products through complementary expertise
- Drive innovation with cross-sector skills
- Optimizing resources to streamline development and reduce risks
- Unlocking business opportunities among partners
- Leveraging strategic market insights to foster unity and protect shared interests”
Do you want to be in the premium starting block to drive the access and deployment of new generation of interoperable EV recharge service ?
Mobena continues to welcome new industrial partners from the e-mobility ecosystem who are interested in positioning themselves in Plug and Charge and Smart Charging and contributing to the structuring of the offer. The project is also open to institutional partners, who will help prepare for the seamless introduction of these offers to the European market and promote the project’s resulting orientations