Grußwort des BEM im NEAS Guide

Sep­tem­ber 2018 /  New Ener­gy Auto Com­pa­ny Guide 2018 — 2019
The key tech­nolo­gies of elec­tro­mo­bil­i­ty and the intel­li­gent pow­er grid will deter­mine our future
Low-emis­sion dri­ve con­cepts are world­wide on the fast lane and it’s clear, that the change to a new mobil­i­ty is no longer a dis­tant future theme. All rel­e­vant play­ers are work­ing cur­rent­ly under pres­sure in the growth indus­try of the green econ­o­my on resources, qui­et and clean new mobil­i­ty. Elec­tric mobil­i­ty con­tin­ues to pre­vail in Ger­many, all rel­e­vant play­ers, even man­u­fac­tur­ers who try to avoid this top­ic have rec­og­nized that this is inescapable.
On a pos­i­tive note is the fact that we are mov­ing for­ward on a glob­al lev­el. The turn to renew­able ener­gies and to a sus­tain­able new mobil­i­ty is of course a huge chal­lenge and means a mul­ti­tude of cor­re­spond­ing changes. A process, which began already more than a hun­dred years ago.
Cur­rent­ly, it will be a great chal­lenge to intel­li­gent­ly con­nect the ener­gy sec­tor with the mobil­i­ty sec­tor. In order to reduce air pol­lu­tion in met­ro­pol­i­tan areas and to pro­mote the attrac­tive­ness of elec­tric mobil­i­ty, we have pro­posed to pro­mote the charg­ing of elec­tric vehi­cles to pub­lic charg­ing sta­tions with free elec­tric­i­ty and to invest addi­tion­al­ly in the nation­wide expan­sion of charg­ing infrastructure.
In the long term, we see the val­ue of elec­tric­i­ty not in sales, but in the abil­i­ty to save elec­tric­i­ty at peak loads and deliv­er it back when need­ed. The aim is to cre­ate a bidi­rec­tion­al charg­ing infra­struc­ture for the vehi­cles and the charg­ing sta­tions and to build a pow­er grid of the future, the so-called Smart­Grid. This sig­nif­i­cant­ly improves the inte­gra­tion of renew­able ener­gies into the pow­er grid and par­tial­ly avoids cost­ly grid expansion.
We see this as a viable busi­ness mod­el that does not rely on a high charge for charge cur­rent — which would be coun­ter­pro­duc­tive for the nation­wide intro­duc­tion of eMo­bil­i­ty in the long term — but a shared rev­enue mod­el that also takes the elec­tric vehi­cle users into account in mon­e­tary terms.
Chris­t­ian Heep, Vice Pres­i­dent of the Ger­man Fed­er­al Asso­ci­a­tion for eMobility