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5G-V2X

5G-V2X extends cellular vehicle communications with higher capacity, lower latency, improved reliability, and support for advanced cooperative and automated driving applications.

BDC

Bidirectional Charging allows an electric vehicle battery to receive electricity and return stored energy to a home, building, load, or electric grid.

C-V2X

Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything is a communications technology that allows vehicles to exchange safety, traffic, and mobility information with other vehicles, infrastructure, pedestrians, and cellular networks.

C-ITS

Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems allow vehicles, infrastructure, traffic systems, and road users to share information for safer and more efficient transportation.

DSRC

Dedicated Short-Range Communications is a low-latency wireless technology designed for direct vehicle, roadside infrastructure, and transportation safety communications.

ITS-G5

ITS-G5 is a European short-range communications technology used by cooperative intelligent transport systems for direct vehicle and roadside communications.

LTE-V2X

LTE-V2X is the initial cellular V2X generation based on LTE technology, supporting direct vehicle communications and network-assisted V2X services.

PnC

Plug & Charge enables a compatible electric vehicle and charging station to authenticate, authorize, and manage charging automatically through a secure digital connection.

Telematics combines vehicle communications, location data, onboard systems, and cloud services to support monitoring, diagnostics, navigation, safety, and fleet operations.

V2X

Vehicle-to-Everything is the umbrella concept for communications and energy exchanges between vehicles and other vehicles, infrastructure, networks, pedestrians, homes, buildings, devices, and the electric grid.

V2G

Vehicle-to-Grid enables electric vehicles to exchange energy with the electric grid, allowing managed charging and, where supported, the export of stored vehicle energy.

V2I

Vehicle-to-Infrastructure enables vehicles to exchange information with roadside equipment, traffic signals, tolling systems, charging infrastructure, and other transportation assets.

V2N

Vehicle-to-Network connects vehicles with cellular and cloud-based services for traffic information, navigation, software services, fleet management, and broader V2X applications.

Release 14

Introduced initial LTE-based Cellular V2X specifications supporting direct vehicle communications and network-assisted V2X services.

ITS-G5

European communications specifications for cooperative intelligent transport systems using short-range vehicle and roadside communications.

802.11p

An amendment to the IEEE 802.11 family designed to support wireless access in vehicular environments and low-latency vehicle communications.

ISO 15118

A family of standards defining communication between electric vehicles and charging infrastructure, including Plug & Charge and bidirectional energy communication.

ISO 15118-20

ISO 15118-20 defines second-generation charging messages, including bidirectional power-transfer communication. It matters to V2X because it gives independently developed systems a common technical contract.