Efforts to advance electric mobility in Germany are largely represented by the public initiatives 'Modellregionen Elektromobilität' (model regions electric mobility) and recently 'Schaufenster Elektromobilität' (showcase / show windows electric mobility). In this context many projects were initiated in this field within the last years. As such, the project UI ElMo will evaluate the operation of BEV as part of companies' vehicle fleets.

Hereby the integration of BEV into existing structures plays a major role. An additional goal of this project is to explore the potentials and limits for cooperation and mutual use of private charging infrastructure. To this end an approach to fee charged amounts of energy will be implemented for the charging infrastructure of the participating companies.

In this project the DFKI is responsible for the acquisition and the storage of usage and consumption data. This data is collected by logging devices integrated into the vehicles and is then transferred to the central backend server via a secured mobile communication interface. There the data is then stored and analysed. The analyses will be made available to the participating companies in order to enable them to optimise the usage of their vehicle fleet.