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Electromobility in Berlin

05-18-2011 by Challenge Bibendum

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Berlin, host of the Challenge Bibendum, believes that electromobility will be a reality by 2020.

With 250 electric vehicles on the roads and a hundred recharging stations, the Berlin region leads Germany’s electromobility table and the city-state has no intention of losing its number one position. To do so, it has formed a partnership program with the neighboring Brandenburg region to back and speed up the process. The goal is to get 100,000 electric vehicles on its roads by 2020.

Twelve research projects are currently underway in businesses, research centers and universities. The 80 million euro envelope allocated to these projects by the regional government and German Federal State should lead to global technological breakthroughs adapted to urban mobility. “We want to develop coherent electromobility that is not focused solely on vehicle performance but that also incorporates all the issues related to the supply of electricity to individual and public transport vehicles,” reports Gernot Lobenberg, head of eMO, Berlin’s electromobility agency. What’s more, the decision in favor of electric vehicles is also part of an employment creation policy, with the goal of boosting the industrial fabric of the Berlin-Brandenburg region, primarily focused on the service sector.

In terms of demand, the capital’s young and ecological social structure should facilitate the sale of electric vehicles.

The question of cost remains. “The vehicles on the road at the moment are leased but are nonetheless aimed primarily at a relatively well-off customer: an electric-powered Smart costs around 700 euro a month to lease,” agrees Gernot Lobenberg. To make electric vehicles accessible to the greatest number, the head of eMO is counting on the gradual drop in production costs, but also on the development of car sharing. “We are envisaging an Autolib system, such as the one the city of Paris is soon going to launch. We are convinced that our mentalities will change massively and that in the forthcoming years it won't seem essential to own your own car,” adds Gernot Lobenberg. A prediction that can already be tested in Berlin, which is one of Germany's cities with the lowest number of cars.

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