Innovative charging infrastructure and services securing electric vehicle being alWays ready for operatiON

In 2016, global CO2 emissions from fuel combustion were 32.31 GtCO2, which is a substantial part of global CO2 emissions. Electrifying transport is therefore an important means of reducing global CO2 emissions. Today, the market share of full electric vehicles is still low in many European member states. Several reasons have been identified for this. Charging infrastructure is considered as one of the central reasons when the urban model does not allow for widespread garage availability, or when frequent long-range travel is involved. Currently most EV owners have their own garage and live in peri-urban areas. Innovative solutions need to be evaluated and developed to allow EV drivers to have a similar or even better mobility experience than with conventional fossil fuel vehicles in terms of availability, convenience, performance and costs of the necessary charging infrastructure. At the same time, the infrastructure should not affect the noise environment around them, in order not to create resistance to their installation in urban contexts. In the longer term, electric roads can be considered for further streamlining the user experience starting from urban and peri-urban applications such as bus, taxi and LDV lanes, for later extension to extra-urban applications. The challenge will be to support the accelerated deployment of recharging infrastructure, on the one hand a slow charging infrastructure for cities with low garage availability, on the other hand ultrafast occasional charging infrastructure for long range travel. The WaysON project proposes innovative solutions for accelerated development of electric vehicle charging infrastructure (EVCI) at the market, system and service levels through the following three core thematic elements: market economics, system dynamics and services and ergonomics. A deep understanding of the interconnection and interplay between various aspects and processes of these thematic elements is vital for the proposal’s success.