EV-STEP - Sustainable Technical and Economic Pathways for Electrified Mobility Systems in EU28 by 2030
Overview
Background & policy context:
Pure and Plug-in-Hybrid electric vehicles can provide an appropriate technological answer to EU‘s energy and environmental strategic goals. But, to avoid a carbon or efficiency leakage from the end-use to the energy supply level, assessments must be performed in an inclusive framework.
Building such a framework is complex due to the technological dimension in which the transport system interacts with a highly diverse mobility demand and with the electric system and energy system more largely.
Objectives:
EV-STEP's overall goal is the long term strategic analysis of the energy, economic and environmental dimensions of the different kinds of electric vehicles i.e. pure and plug in hybrid electric vehicles. While the years up to 2030 define our main period of interest, our analyses will be extended to 2050 to ensure adequacy with EU’s long term GHG mitigation objectives.
Introducing a long term prospective dimension and the possible transformation of those interrelated systems increases the complexity of the task. By expanding existing system analysis tools, the aim of the EV-STEP project is to develop a framework for such an integrated assessment in order to assess the key technical and economic conditions of an increased electrification of European transport systems while covering the spatial heterogeneity of its territory.
Methodology:
The originality of the methodology is to associate in a common analysis a bottom-up energy systems optimisation model and a static computable general equilibrium model. The MARKAL/TIMES and IMACLIM-S modelling frameworks are used. EV-STEP‘s contribution to Electromobility+ is the evaluation of electric vehicles roadmaps, of their implications for the interconnected European electric and energy system and, on the economic side, the assessments of some impacts on EU28s economic input-output balance.
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