Commission will provide a total of €24 million in funding to support the project.[2] According to the EU Commissioner for Transport, Siim Kallas, Green eMotion aims to link the currently ongoing regional and national electromobility initiatives, apply their results, and compare the different technology approaches, to support the best possible solutions for the European market. This platform will allow for co-operation among the various players and promote both new, high-quality transportation services and convenient payment systems for the users of electric vehicles.[3] Thus, the commission is paving the way for the creation of a mass market for electric vehicles in the EU. In selected demonstration regions, 43 project partners, including industrial enterprises and automotive companies, power utilities, municipal governments and universities, as well as testing and research institutions, are studying the conditions to make that goal a reality.[4] Green eMotion is part of the Transport 2050 Roadmap,[5] an EU strategy paper that strives to bring about a 60% reduction in CO2 emissions from road transportation by the year 2050.[6]
The project
As part of the Green eMotion project, the project partners are conducting research to determine the conditions that must be fulfilled to ensure the smooth, cross-border use of electric vehicles. The initiative is particularly focused on developing uniform, Europe-wide processes, standards and IT solutions:[7] which will make it possible for users of electric vehicles to have easy access to charging infrastructures and related services throughout Europe. Aside from issues such as connection technology and compatibility with different charging stations, the initiative is also focused on solving economic questions, such as the problem-free billing of charging services with different power utilities or grid operators within the participating countries, also on a cross-border basis.[8]
The ten demonstration regions defined in the project had more than 2,500 charging stations in practical operation at the end of 2011, so as to allow for representative data collection. Green eMotion will combine the experiences collected in the previous local approaches of individual demonstration regions within a comprehensive European model test to evaluate the basic conditions for cross-border electro-mobility.[9] In addition to researching the options for using electric passenger vehicles, Green eMotion will also study the use of bi-wheeled vehicles and busses, including both purely electric models and hybrid models.[10]
The Green eMotion demonstration regions
The demonstration regions of the Green eMotion project will study various aspects of electromobility in Europe, including studies of user behaviour, for example, and will develop proposals for guidelines and decision-making bases for political office holders. Consideration will also be given to organisational and technical details, including different vehicle types (purely electric passenger vehicles, busses and bi-wheeled vehicles, but also hybrid vehicles). The demonstration regions will also serve the purpose of practically testing a wide range of electromobility aspects, including battery exchange, charging with direct-current electricity and the integration with smart grids.
Research focal points: Battery exchange, cross-border transportation, up to 4,500 charging stations and up to 3,500 vehicles, and research to improve battery life[12]
Strasbourg
Research focal points: Plug-in hybrid vehicles, 100 charging stations, cross-border links with Karlsruhe/Stuttgart.
Karlsruhe/Stuttgart
Research focal points: Smart grid characteristics,[13] optimised bi-directional charging; cross-border link with Strasbourg.
Berlin
Research focal points: World's largest integrated e-mobility project devoted to researching business models and customer behaviour, 3,600 charging stations.
Research focal points: Direct-current charging stations, billing with free choice of electricity vendor, approximately 2,000 vehicles and 3,500 charging stations[15]
Research focal points: Smart grid integration and integration of renewable energy sources for generating electricity (integration of renewable energy sources, RES)
Research focal points: Citizen service centre for electromobility, e-bikes.
Particular aspects: integration with a smart city concept,[18] building-to-grid (B2G, meaning that buildings integrated with smart grids and supported by building control systems and information technology will use previously unutilised degrees of freedom (shiftable loads, load shedding, partial load operation, etc.) to optimise grid operation).,[19]Vehicle to Grid (V2G), direct-current charging stations.
See also
EURELECTRIC (EURELECTRIC – the European association representing the electricity industry)
↑ cf. interview with Heike BerlagArchived 31 December 2016 at the Wayback Machine on cars21.com: "The overall goal of the project is defining the framework for electromobility in Europe. As a demonstration project Green eMotion will show an interoperable electromobility system and so prepare the start of the mass market.", retrieved on 25 May 2012
↑ cf. CORDIS: „It's 'get set, go' for electric mobility!“Archived 25 January 2008 at the Wayback Machine : „The hope is that all these projects will lead to the overall progressive entry of the electric car, with more than 10,000 recharging points throughout Europe. Almost 1,000 are to be installed in Barcelona, Madrid and Malaga in Spain, approximately 3,600 in Berlin, Germany, 400 in Rome and Pisa in Italy, and about 100 in Strasbourg, France.“, retrieved on 25 May 2012
↑ cf. the articleArchived 30 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine in DVZ (Deutsche Verkehrszeitung/Deutsche Logistikzeitung, German only), retrieved on 25 May 2012
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