Green Mobility

When it comes to mobility in a post fossil age, hope rests with renewable energy sources (e.g. electricity from wind, water and solar power plants). Since these are more environmentally friendly than the use of non-renewable resources (like oil), mobility based on renewables is termed “green mobility”. But to progress from fossil fuels to green mobility is anything but easy. Most of all, an array of technical problems needs to be solved: E.g. the time e-vehicles take to recharge is still inconveniently long, while their range is comparatively short. Therefore, green mobility needs a combination of cutting-edge technology and new ways of usage to thrive.
And the time is ripe for greening mobility. E.g. the range of electric vehicles already is more than sufficient for most trips. The current technical standard is high enough to integrate electric vehicles into public transport, since the shorter range of e-vehicles is of no consequence there.

Main research questions:

• Which business models and vehicles reflect customer demand most closely? Which are therefore most likely to gain high customer approval and succeed in the long term?
  
  
• What are the main prerequisites for successfully establishing green mobility with end users?
  
  
• Which types of propulsion and which types of vehicles can be combined with the concept of using instead of owning and how can they be integrated into public transport?
  
  
• What can information and communications technology contribute to solving technical problems?

For more information please contact Ulrich König