Background

One of the five core goals of the Europe 2020 strategy of the European Union includes the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 20% in comparison to 1990. This goal has effects on many industries, including the transport industry.
This is set against the high dependency of transport on fossil fuel sources as well as a continually growing energy demand in this sector. The fact that fossil fuels are finite and that a sustainable contribution to the reduction of CO2 emissions must be made as quickly as possible for climate protection is known to all players.
Electromobility represents the only practicable solution for a quick changeover to sustainable technologies in transport. In the ENEVATE project – European Network on Electric Vehicles and Transferring Expertise – partners from six different northwestern European countries work together to advance the development and introduction of this technology. Rapid and coordinated action is required in order to open up this still young market and to remain viable against rising competition.
In order to position Hesse in this subject area, Regionalmanagement Nordhessen GmbH participated in the ENEVATE project with its mobility cluster.

Goals

The stated goal of the ENEVATE network is to support a rapid introduction of e-mobility in northwestern Europe. By means of structured, transnational collaboration and cooperation between authorities, science and innovation centers and agents of business, knowledge is imparted, information is disseminated and the conversion is made easier. In this way, ENEVATE builds bridges between the relevant players, who previously acted on their own.
The project work is not only intended to support innovations in the electric vehicle sector, but also the expansion of the energy infrastructure, such as with charging stations. Both motorized individual transport as well as public transport and goods transport are considered. To coordinate developments in the field of electromobility, the partners develop integrated transport concepts. In order to implement the use of the new technology, the project also focuses on acceptance-promoting measures with consumers and authorities. ENEVATE thus provides decisive impulses for implementing the Europe 2020 goals and for simultaneously bringing about long-term improvement of the transport infrastructure. Another positive effect of the accelerated changeover to environmentally friendly transport is that increased investments are initiated in these fields and jobs are created in northwestern Europe. Together, competitive advantages in the global market of electromobility can be secured.

Funding

INTERREG supports cooperation between the cities, regions and member states of the European Union and is part of the goal 3 "European territorial cooperation" with three orientations: cross-border collaboration, transnational collaboration and interregional collaboration. Projects are funded in connection with the European Fund for Regional Development (EFRE).

Partners

ENEVATE 2.0 project extension

Because a majority of projects already developed to promote e-mobility in western Europe concentrate on large cities and adjoining regions, the ENEVATE 2.0 project extension attempts to develop ideas and concepts that contribute to the establishment of e-mobility in rural areas. Knowledge especially gained from the ENEVATE project will be used for this purpose.

Projectpartners ENEVATE 2.0