"Plug and pay instantly"…Chaebi selected to lead the government's first public Plug & Charge pilot program

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Chaebi, an operator of electric vehicle fast-charging infrastructure, announced on the 6th that it has been finally selected as the first pilot operator for the "Electric Vehicle Automatic Charging and Payment (PnC, Plug & Charge)" service being promoted by the Ministry of Climate, Energy and Environment.

Following this selection, Chaebi plans to prioritize the application of the PnC service to 30 public fast chargers starting from the end of October, and will begin a thorough check on the stability of the service in actual driving and charging environments. The Ministry of Climate intends to expand the service to all public fast chargers nationwide that support the PnC function in the future, based on the results of this pilot operation.

PnC is a next-generation international standard charging technology where, once the user connects the charging connector to the vehicle, everything from charging to payment is automatically completed without separate membership card authentication or complex on-site payment procedures. Its core lies in radically simplifying the cumbersome existing charging process, which involves 5 to 6 steps, to maximize user convenience.

The reason Chaebi was chosen as the first pilot operator was largely due to its outstanding technical capability of proactively applying a Hardware Security Module (HSM) chip, which can preemptively respond to security risks, to the Ministry of Climate's fast chargers. The HSM chip is a dedicated security device that safely protects important information within the hardware and performs encryption and authentication tasks, significantly strengthening the security of the authentication process between the vehicle and the charger.

Choi Young-hoon Chae Bi (CEO) emphasized, "Based on the PnC technology that Chaebi has independently accumulated and its rich field operation experience, we will present a stable and advanced public PnC service."

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