Nationale Plattform Elektromobilität

Logo of Nationale Plattform Elektromobilität
Inauguration meeting in Berlin
Keynote of Chancellor Angela Merkel

The German Nationale Plattform Elektromobilität (NPE) – rendered in English as National Electric Mobility Platform (BMU)[1] or National Platform for Electric Mobility (VDA, VW)[2] or National Platform for Electromobility (BMW, Audi) – is a joint council of the German government covering electric vehicle introduction. It was officially established on 3. May 2010 during a meeting with German chancellor Angela Merkel including the heads of all car makers, industry providers, technical organizations and research associations in Germany. Its task is to drive the "Nationaler Entwicklungsplan Elektromobilität" / National Development Plan for Electric Mobility.

History

The foundation for the promotion of electric mobility in Germany was in the Integrated Energy and Climate Programme (IEKP) of the Federal Government decided in 2007.[3] Concrete measures were proposed in connection with the National Strategy Conference on Electromobility at the end of 2008.[4] First fundings followed under the second economic stimulus package in early 2009. Earlier to that the industry had formed a so-called Innovation Alliance "LIB 2015" where the industry consortium committed to invest 360 million euros for research and development of lithium-ion batteries.[5]

The funding of the economic stimulus package brought up an amount of 500 million euros for projects in 15 topics.[6] The lead on the projects were split across the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi), of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs (Germany) for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU), Education and Research (BMBF) and of Food, Agriculture and Be (BMELV). The actual implementation were mostly coordinated by partners like the VDI / VDE-IT that previously coordinated developments in electric tooling like batteries.[7]

Annette Schavan, federal minister on research, unveiled in September 2009 the "Forum Elektromobilität" / Forum Electric Mobility as part of the System Research division of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft.[8] The forum was assigned to join the research and development efforts of public instituations as well as industrial partners.[9] The offices in Darmstadt were funded with 30 millions from the economic stimulus package.[10] These efforts are at the heart of the government plan later dubbed "Nationaler Entwicklungsplan Elektromobilität" / National Development Plan for Electric Mobility.

The National Development Plan for Electric Mobility came increasingly into the focus of the chancellery such that the "Gemeinsame Geschäftsstelle Elektromobilität der Bundesregierung" (GGEMO) / Joint Agency for Electric Mobility of the Federal Government was founded on 1. February 2010 under the auspices of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology and the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs.[11] Already with its creation it called for the foundation of the National Platform on Electric Mobility on 3. May 2010.[12] The GGEMO government office has coordinated a partnership program with the German car industry that was inaugurated as planned on 3. May 2010 in the German Chancellery under the announced name of "Nationale Plattform Elektromobilität" (NPE) / National Platform for Electric Mobility.[13]

The NPE partnership is supposed to detail the plans for network evolution.[14] The technical standardization part is mostly concentrated in the Deutsche Kommission Elektrotechnik (DKE) of the Association for Electrical, Electronic and Information Technologies (VDE) – the Standardization Overview on E-Mobility[15] shows a wide range of efforts from electric grid management to the charging station infrastructure to the car charger electronics. The NPE partnership has published an interim report on 30 November 2010 showing a test fleet of 2800 electric vehicles and 2500 charging stations in 8 test regions.[16]

In the course of actions the German industry pledged to set up company-and cross-industry working groups and the creation of an interim report by the end of November 2010. The coordination committees of the NPE were able to over the expert knowledge of the existing working groups of the German Commission for Electrical Engineering (DKE) at the Association for Electrical, Electronic and Information Technologies (VDE). The VDE Congress "E-mobility"in Leipzig on 8 / 9 November 2010 were used for the technical coordination, from which the interim report to the Federal Government was derived that describes the overall state of development and the expectations on e-mobility of the representatives of industry and research associations.

The second interim report was published in 2011. The report refined the details on development options – in an early statement the German industry expressed the opinion that the current stimulation plan is insufficient to reach the defined goal of 1 million cars in Germany by 2020.[17]

According to the fourth progress report of the German National Platform for Electric Mobility, only about 24,000 plug-in electric cars are on German roads by the end of November 2014, well behind the target of 100,000 unit goal set for 2014. As a result, Chancellor Angela Merkel recognized in December 2014 that the government has to provide more incentives to meet the goal of having 1 million electric cars on the country’s roads by 2020. Among others, the federal government is considering based on the recommendations of the report to offer a tax break for zero-emission company cars, more subsidies to expand charging infrastructure, particularly to deploy more public fast chargers, and more public funding for research and development of the next generation of rechargeable batteries.[18][19]

Organization

Chairman Henning Kagermann 2011

There are currently 7 working groups with each about 20 members. The working groups are coordinated by the Steering Committee, composed of mainly the working group chairs and representatives of the federal government. The National Platform for Electric Mobility has the task to shape the developments into the direction of concrete actions to achieve the objectives of the National Development Plan for Electric Mobility. On 30 November 2010 was the first interim report published.

The working groups are:

The members of the steering committee:

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.bmu.de/english/mobility/electric_mobility/doc/46024.php
  2. ↑ http://www.vda.de/files/tk/Programm_TK_2011_144dpi.pdf
  3. ↑ "Integriertes Energie- und Klimaprogramm (IEKP)" (PDF). bmu.de (in German).
  4. ↑ "elektromobilitaet2008.de". elektromobilitaet2008.de.
  5. ↑ "„Lithium Ionen Batterie LIB 2015“". fz-juelich.de.
  6. ↑ "Elektromobilität im Rahmen des Konjunkturpakets II" (PDF). foerderinfo.bund.de (in German).
  7. ↑ VDI/VDE-IT: Projektträger Elektromobilität
  8. ↑ Forum-Elektromobilität, unterstützt vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)
  9. ↑ Echo Online: Darmstadt. Schaltstelle für "Systemforschung Elektromobilität" vom 24. September 2009
  10. ↑ Annette Schavan: "Elektromobilität hat jetzt eine Adresse", Informationsdienst Wissenschaft, Pressemitteilung vom 9. September 2009
  11. ↑ Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie, Referat Öffentlichkeitsarbeit. "BMWi - Energie". bmwi.de.
  12. ↑ Pressemeldung vom 1.2.2010 "Gemeinsame Geschäftsstelle Elektromobilität der Bundesregierung (GGEMO) nimmt Fahrt auf" "um das Ziel zu erreichen, Deutschland zu einem Leitmarkt für Elektromobilität zu entwickeln und bis 2020 eine Mio. Elektrofahrzeuge in Deutschland zu haben."
  13. ↑ Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie, Referat Öffentlichkeitsarbeit. "BMWi - Pressemitteilungen". bmwi.de.
  14. ↑ "Nationale Plattform Elektromobilität kommt mit ihrer Arbeit gut voran", press release 217/2010, German Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development, 28. July 2010
  15. ↑ "Standardisierung und Normung in der Elektromobilität". vde.com.
  16. ↑ "Nationale Plattform Elektromobilität legt Zwischenbericht vor", heise autos, 2. November 2010
  17. ↑ "Deutsche Industrie fordert Subventionen für Elektroautos", Heise Autos online, 18. April 2011
  18. ↑ Brian Parkin and Dorothee Tschampa (2014-12-02). "Merkel Backs Incentives in Push for a Million Electric Cars". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved 2014-12-07.
  19. ↑ Sabine Kinkartz (2014-12-03). "The future is electric - or is it?". Deutsche Welle. Retrieved 2014-12-07.

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