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Figure 2: Cities as incubators for Electromobility
Local absence
Small cruising
of CO²
range High purchasing
Noise
costs
reduction Clean city
Long charging
centers
time
Reduction
Missing
of respirable
standards
dust Environment profits more than driver!
Source: Strukturstudie BWe Mobil, Fraunhofer IAO
› and 50% of the cities with more than 100.000 inhabitants are active in that field. These figures are quite astonishing concerning the fact that fully electrically driven vehicles are not available in large scale production up to date.
other high influence on the diffusion of electromobiles has the integration of electric vehicles into municipal or taxi fleets. Municipal vehicles with their in most cases clearly defined application profiles and daily driven routes less
The challenge cities are facing today is the lack of expertise concerning electric vehicle concepts. An important issue for electromobility in cities is the planning, development and construction of a charging infrastructure. How charging stations can be integrated into the cityscape and how they can be adapted to the customer needs in an optimal way is one question addressed to the research landscape. A LED based street light integrating a charging point is one solution currently developed by the Fraunhofer IAO together with the industry partner Lic® Langmatz GmbH. An-
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than 100 km are ideal for the performance profile of electromobile vehicles and moreover offer a great opportunity for citizens to experience electromobiles in daily life. Besides cities and local authorities also car manufacturers engage in initiatives concerning urban electromobility. For instance BMW is building a „Megacity Vehicle“, adapted to the needs of urban inhabitants. Moreover Audi just donated an architecture price concerning concepts that con-
nect mobility and city development. Audi therefore invited different architecture offices to take part at the so called “Audi Urban Future Award” and develop concepts for the urban space and mobility of the future. In addition Daimler introduced the “Car 2 Go” Concept in Ulm (Germany) and Austin (Texas, USA), an innovative car-sharing concept, which allows spontaneous use of cars that are spread over the whole city area. Users do can find nonoccupied vehicles via internet, mobile phone or directly on the street and just pay for the distance covered. Whereas in Austin around 1.400 customers use this innovative car-sharing system, in Ulm Car 2 Go already has 17.400 customers and more than 98% of the inhabitants of Ulm know Car 2 Go. Cities as incubators for electromobility A diffusion of the technology has to be expected in the urban texture as a result of the performance profile of electric
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