Plug & Charge vs. Roaming: Why EV Charging Needs Both | Trishan Peruma, CEO of Hubject North America

Your passport proves who you are. Your boarding pass proves you can fly. Public EV charging works the same way. Michael Bakunin, CEO and co-founder of Epic Charging, sits down with Trishan Peruma, CEO of Hubject North America, operator of the world's largest eRoaming network. They break down the difference between Plug & Charge and roaming, and why both matter for a simpler charging experience. In this episode: Plug & Charge (authentication) vs. roaming (authorization), explained with one simple analogy How Plug & Charge works under the hood with ISO 15118 Why Plug & Charge adoption, as a share of the market, is higher in North America than in Europe Why the biggest Plug & Charge network today sits behind the fence, at fleet depots Megawatt charging, V2G and school buses What the U.S. can learn from Europe on roaming, and where regulation is heading in California Why autonomous vehicles are the next big disruption The Epic Charging and Hubject agreement Chapters: 00:00 Intro: Trishan Peruma and Hubject North America 01:00 Hubject, explained simply 02:00 What surprised Trishan in EV charging this year 04:00 From Shell to Pod Point, ViriCiti and Hubject 10:00 Hubject's scale 12:15 Roaming vs. Plug & Charge: the passport analogy 15:00 How Plug & Charge works 18:40 Can Plug & Charge stay reliable at scale? 20:45 The Epic Charging and Hubject agreement 23:05 Fleets, megawatt charging and V2G 27:45 What the U.S. market does differently from Europe 30:00 Inside ICNC, Hubject's global conference 36:05 EVCA and California's roaming mandate 38:10 Roaming in Europe vs. North America 41:15 Multicontract handling: the next blocker 42:20 Will big networks open up? 44:00 The question nobody is asking Hubject: https://www.hubject.com Epic Charging: https://epiccharging.com Read the announcement: https://www.bluedot.co/resource/news/...