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52 Autumn 2016 European Energy Innovation
E-MOBILITY
From sustainable Mobility
to E-mobility
By Joseph Beretta, Avere-France President, AVERE Vice president
THE ROLE OF E-MOBILITY IN
SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY
E-mobility has the potential to play
a key role in ensuring sustainable
mobility for the future. The current
conditions is today met, this is
partly due to the current economic
situation, with increasing sales of
electrical vehicles, a large extent also
due to quick progress in charging
infrastructure deployment, and clear
and unified vision from politicians.
E-mobility can be a large part of a long-
term solution to mobility challenges;
for that full cooperation between utility
providers, infrastructure companies,
energy sector, standardisation bodies,
automotive industry and the full support
of national governments and the
European institutions is required. Avere-
France and AVERE Europe assume this
networking role at both levels.
THE REASONS TO CHOOSE
E-MOBILITY:
1. Environment point of view:
Electrification is credible option for
decarbonisation of surface transport.
Electricity is now already a significantly powertrains. It’s time from Europe to
cleaner power source than oil, and
will become more free carbon content
in coming decades. Sustainable
e-mobility can help clean up electricity
by providing a storage option,
stabilising the grid. Electric vehicles
have not exhaust pipe emissions and
emitted very low particulates from
brake, thank to regeneration braking.
2. Energy concerns:
Electric traction is inherently 2 to
3 more energy efficient than other
options,. Electricity is superior to oil;
gas or biofuels to regards diversity and
independence of energy. It can draw
from a wide variety of energy sources,
especially from renewable like wind
and solar.
3. Alternatives have not the same
credibility:
Natural gas is not a low-carbon expect
Bio gas but its stay today a niche
solution. Biofuels have huge and, as yet
unresolved, sustainability challenges,
especially to regard agricultural land.
Only hydrogen may be part of future
e-mobility but efficiency issues have yet
to be addressed.
4. The economics aspect of electric
vehicles:
E-mobility can reinforce trends towards
sustainable transport (high fixed costs,
low variable costs) help vehicle sharing.
A key element on electrification must
be to go beyond ownership. Electric
traction is also well suited for small
and light vehicles such as e-bikes,
e-scooters, and small quadricycles that
are quickly becoming more popular.
5. Innovation and competitiveness:
There are large chose of technologies:
petrol hybrid, plug-in, full electric and
fuel cell vehicles for future vehicle
regards global competitiveness to
switch from diesel to E-mobility. A
shift to electrification of transport is a in France. But it is not enough. Avere-
benefit from air pollution, imported
oil, cleaning electricity and, in the
process, stimulating jobs, growth and
sustainable mobility choices
DEVELOPMENT OF E-MOBILITY IN
FRANCE
E-mobility will play a key role in solving
many of the challenges to energy use
and urbanisation. France is one of the
most dynamic markets in the world, the
EVs market shares are only 1% of the
whole automobile market when PHEV
are only 0,4%, which makes France
the 4th European market in terms of
penetration after Norway, Denmark and
Switzerland.
Strong barriers remain for
electromobility to grow massively:
• the high retail prices of vehicles;
• the low level of consumer
acknowledge and acceptance;
• the lack of recharging infrastructure
Indeed, there are still strong myths on
electric vehicles and, in spite of the
existing subsidies and the development
of charging infrastructures network,
price and range are still considered as
obstacles by most of the people.
Public support can be considered as
vital for the growth of electromobility
France deployed a strong effort on
pedagogy and information is still
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