E-mobility in the Alpine region: the e-MOTICON project aims to improve the charging infrastructure

The name says it all. The project "e-MObility Transnational strategy for an Interoperable COmmunity and Networking in the Alpine Space" - e-MOTICON for short - aims to advance e-mobility in the Alpine region. Launched in November 2016, the project brings together 15 partners and 41 observers from Italy, Austria, Germany, Slovenia, France and Switzerland. It connects authorities, regional organizations, research centers and private investors. Until June 2019, the project partners will work together to provide municipalities and public administration with planning tools for the development of e-charging infrastructure and improve their knowledge in the field of technological innovation and business models.

The aim of the e-MOTICON project is to support the public administration in building an innovative area-wide and compatible e-charging infrastructure model in the Alpine Space, based on a transnational strategy and regional action plans. In addition, the project aims to increase knowledge about technological innovations and business models around the topic of electromobility .

Bayern Innovativ is one of the partners in the project, together with other Bavarian organizations such as B.A.U.M. Consult GmbH, the Berchtesgaden Business Development Corporation and Kempten University of Applied Sciences.

Detail

e-MOTICON: Test the strategy!

In one of the first steps, the partners of e-MOTICON analyze and evaluate the currently prevailing situation of electric mobility in the Alpine region in order to specifically address the current problems and develop strategies and solutions. A Whitebook presents the results and provides public administrations with a guide for planning innovative charging infrastructure concepts.

Planning instruments, such as the Regional Action Plan (RAP) currently under development for the Berchtesgadener Land region and probably also for Traunstein and Mühldorf am Inn, list recommendations on how concrete regional e-mobility concepts can look and be implemented.

Multiple pilot activities - eHUB, eTRAIL and Process & Localization (P&L) - serve to test the interoperability of charging infrastructure on three levels: this includes guidelines, technical standards and spatial planning.

Bayern Innovativ is providing the virtual helpdesk eHUB as part of the project. eHUB is intended to provide public administration, municipalities, citizens, companies and other stakeholders in the field of electromobility and charging station infrastructure in the Alpine region with an informative overview with analyses and descriptions of the current state of electromobility in the Alpine region. The information platform eHUB has the following objectives:

Transfer of trans-regional guidelines, information and exchange of practical examples from the transnational to the local level.
Summary of local needs from municipalities and counties and their support and participation in regional, national and European co-funded projects to increase the diffusion and application of e-mobility.
Improving the capacity of public administration to test new policies, tools and solutions in the field of e-mobility in cooperation with regional stakeholders and between the different eHUBs of the e-MOTICON network.
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The EU project e-MOTICON is funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) within the Interreg Alpine Space Program with about 1.77 million Euros. The total project volume is around 2.09 million euros.

Find more information about e-MOTICON here!