ELMO'S - Electromobility solutions for cities and regions
Overview
Background & policy context:
Electric vehicles are regarded as one of the cleanest solutions for urban mobility. Due to daily congested roads in and around agglomerations with highly polluting stop-and-go traffic, electromobility with zero-emissions in cities will bring large and quick gains in greenhouse gas reduction and alleviation of air and noise pollution. Moreover, innovative green vehicle concepts will lead to new and sustainable mobility forms in urban mobility. Some already see a new electric mobility age to come up.
However, a fast uptake of electromobility depends on appropriate regional infrastructures, a shift in user patterns, and intelligent vehicle-use concepts embedded in the urban transport environment. The market potential is considered to be enormous.
Objectives:
The overall goal of ELMO's is to promote more sustainable transport through the development of electromobility solutions for cities and regions (ELMO's). The project aims at delivering concepts for a better exchange of electromobility knowledge at regional and EU level, concepts for new business models and for cross-border field tests which should lead to an improved standardisation in electromobility technology and to new insights in applied science. The project therefore, contributes to enhance the regional capacities for a fostering of the sustainable transport-related economy.
Methodology:
The working scheme is designed to achieve these objectives: High-level expert round tables and international networks will gather additional expertise. Two EU-mentoring regions have been involved from the start. From the sectors ICT, automotive and renewable energy, four mature and two less RDCs in geographically linked regions are participating. Their intended set-up of joint concepts for electromobility cross-border testing has never been done so far. As concrete outcomes, concepts for smart specialisation, a joint agenda for future RTDI and training tools will be developed and exciting dissemination actions undertaken.
Taking ELMO's goals into account leads to an integrated research, technological development and innovation (RTDI) circle, which summarises the basic concept of ELMO's. The circle consists of five elements:
- Problem areas to be addressed by
- Technologies, concepts and solutions to be developed through the optimisation of research infrastructures and the interplay of the three electromobility-constituent sectors automotive, renewable energy and ICT
- Cities and regions to establish holistic mobility concepts including provision of infrastructure and incentives
- Market uptake based on cross-border field tests, early adopters and citizens readiness and,
- Socio-economic benefits in terms of economic growth, regions' competitiveness and quality of life.
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