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Augmenting the VSS Vehicle Data Model

Since the beginning of 2020, we started looking on how to augment the VSS Data Model with data set covering the Electric Vehicle (EV) (look at the minutes of CCS calls of 27 January and 10 February).

The following docs were pointed out

• Geotab presentation on Commercial EV Management
• W3C VSS vspec: vehicle_signal_specification/blob/master/spec/Drivetrain/BatteryManagement.vspec repository (almost empty for the time being)
• High-Mobility auto-api: vehicle_signal_specification/blob/master/spec/Drivetrain/BatteryManagement.vspec repository

From the discussions in the calls, it turned out that the data related to battery performance are highly sensitive and it is likely that OEMs are not goint to share these data although one can consider the data could be described in a proprietary branch of the VSS tree.

For the time being, it is proposed to populate the EV branch of the VSS tree with a set of data used by Geotab in commercial EV management where the data are retrieved from the OBD-II port, knowing other (OEM proprietary) battery data are rather available on the vehicle networks like CAN. The purpose of addition this EV data set is just to tell we are future-proof with the handling of EVs.

Jira ticket TBD

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