EU ORGANIZES FOR THE EV

Europe-wide Green eMotion Initiative to pave the way for electromobility
1 April 2011 (Siemens)

"The European Commission has kicked off a 4-year cross-European initiative to promote electromobility. The 42 partners…industrial companies and automobile manufacturers, utilities, municipalities, universities, and technology and research institutions…[will] input, exchange and expand their know-how and experience in selected regions within Europe…The project volume has been budgeted at EUR 42 million, of which the EU will contribute as much as EUR 24 million.

"The partners…[will] accumulate experience with electromobility in existing and new test regions within Europe and refine the technology. Key…is the development of European processes, standards and IT solutions that allow customers of electric vehicles easy and seamless access to charging infrastructure and related services throughout the European Union. Standardization is also the key factor for a fast and cost-efficient European rollout of electromobility. The total number of charging spots within the existing demonstration regions will be more than 10,000…"

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"…[N]early 1000 [charging spots] are going to be installed in Barcelona, Madrid and Malaga…400 in Rome and Pisa…approximately 3600 in Berlin and about 100 in Strasbourg. In Denmark, the country with the world’s largest share of wind-based power generation, car importers expect to put 2,000 electric cars on the roads over the course of this year and as many as 2,000 public and semi public charging stations will be installed in Copenhagen, Bornholm and Malmö…2,000 electric vehicles and approximately 3,500 charging stations are part of a nation wide rollout in Ireland…

"Experience with cars, busses and two-wheelers with pure electric drive systems and as hybrid vehicles is to be gathered in the Green eMotion project. Special aspects in some of the demonstration regions include battery swapping and DC charging as well as smart grid integration, cross-border traffic, different payment systems and the testing of alternative business models."

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"Siemens is the lead company in the research consortium and contributes to the development of software and charging infrastructure solutions, and to the necessary establishment of industrial standards…

"The partners in the Green eMotion Initiative are the industrial companies Alstom, Better Place, Bosch, IBM and Siemens, the utilities Danish Energy Association, EDF, Endesa, Enel, ESB, Eurelectric, Iberdrola, RWE and PPC, the automobile manufacturers BMW, Daimler, Micro-Vett, Nissan and Renault, the municipalities Barcelona, Berlin, Bornholm, Copenhagen, Cork, Dublin (represented by the energy agency Codema), Malaga, Malmo and Rome, the universities and research institutions Cartif, Cidaut, CTL, DTU, ECN, Imperial, IREC, RSE, TCD and Tecnalia, and the technology institutions DTI, fka and TÜV NORD."