Prof. Federico Testa, ENEA Commissioner Ispra (Italy), 29 th October 2015
Personal congratulations First of all, I want to personally congratulate for the inauguration of the European Commission's Interoperability Centre at the Joint Research Centre 2
Some historical background with Ispra RC and JRC EU Joint Research Center in Ispra was the first ENEA Research Center opened up in 1956 This Center was donated, in 1960, by the Italian Government to the European Union In this Center, there is still a number of ENEA researchers fruitfully carrying out research activities and collaborating with their European colleagues on various topics There is a Memorandum of Understanding between JRC and ENEA, signed in 2010 and the collaborations are going on since 2008 with the Institute of Energy and Transport The JRC- ENEA MoU topics currently cover among others Photovoltaic, Bioenergy, Hydrogen and Fuel cells with storage and System adequacy in the power sector 3
The ENEA vision of e-mobility trends The fundamental question to answer: “ What might we expect for the future of mobility in Italy and in the world in 2030 and beyond ” This vision looks at growing integration of e-mobility and electric energy systems and is well represented by the established International Collaboration EU-USA on e-mobility and interoperability. 4
ENEA on smart grids- e-mobility integration Smart Ring at L’Aquila TRAFFIC MONITORING & INFOMOBILITY INTERACTIVE BUILDINGS NETWORK Lighting Control AIR QUALITY MONITORING SOCIAL Air 5 PARTICIPATION Quality
ENEA vision on transport is mostly focused on e-mobility Key objectives of general interest and are part of the national and European strategy up to 2050 in national and European Transport, Energy, Environment and Climate Protection policies 1. Reduction of emissions of the transport sector at global (Greenhous gases) and local (cleaner urban air) level 2. Larger introduction of cleaner alternative fuels 3. Growing share of electrically-driven vehicles on the roads 4. Safe and cost-effective use of transport means as an integral part of the energy systems, by increasing the use of renewable energy sources for mobile applications, the mobile “storage” of energy for improving grid safety and flexibility, the interoperability and the fast intermodal exchange. 6
The ENEA vision on e-mobility in practice A systemic approach Central role to research, innovation and final demonstration , even in integrated manner , moving from single component technologies up to their full integration in smart environments (grids, cities, networks) with the focus on three major key activity lines: The vehicle The practical interface between the road and the “fueling” systems ”Feeding” and standardizing the transportation system: the source and generation of “fuels”, the safety behavior of all the components in any operating situation, the pre-normative research and standardization needs for soft acceptance and introduction of such technologies, the intelligent integration in our future smart energy systems and cities. 7
Status of e-mobility technologies and foreseen trends • The mobility modes and transport means will be considerably different in 2030 and, even more, up to 2050 . • The research efforts must be directed towards the reduction of the related uncertainties to foresee and anticipate with research and innovation activities the potential changes State of art of key technologies not yet completely reached their industrial maturity and cost- effective targets: Energy storage systems (batteries, supercapacitors, hydrogen containment, tanks for biofuels): their cycle life, cost and/or safety are still a concern Alternative fuels and their production processes are not fully optimized to guarantee competitive costs and large and distributed availability E-vehicles with different drivetrains (full hybrid, plug-in, hybrid, pure electric) have achieved satisfying market acceptance only in very limited cases Charging infrastructures are still too limited and not fully standardized to allow for any access, without “range anxiety” The full and smart integration of e-mobility in the day-by-day life and energy systems is still at an early stage. 8
Few examples of actions already done and motivations to support e-mobility growth There a common consensus that research, innovation and demonstration are key in significantly advancing e-mobility technologies for its widespread diffusion up to 4-5 million at 2020 of e- vehicles on roads and a larger share of vehicle market in 2030 and 2050. Real performances of more conventional engines, as shown by the recent Volkswagen problems on emission control of diesel cars, are supporting a significant acceleration of all these research and innovation activities on alternative vehicles. The Institute for Energy and Transport of JRC has started looking into real driving emissions more than ten years ago (for heavy duty vehicles), and created the "father" Vehicle Emissions Laboratory (VELA) , for the introduction of real- drive emission testing in Euro 6 standards In about three decades ENEA is combining the reinforcement of its expertise and infrastructures with the establishment, about twenty years ago , of one of the first European integrated facility of e-mobility test laboratories 9
ENEA Proposal for future chief actions in favor of e-mobility – a short list the research and experimental the research of novel and efficient characterization of key e- mobility processes for the production of cleaner component s such as batteries, propelling “fuels” (mainly biofuels, supercapacitors, fuels cells, advanced electricity and hydrogen), from electronics, electric motors and renewable energy sources . complete powertrains . the technical performances of the optimization of charging components and complete vehicles procedures, regular and fast chargers must be internationally verified and and their interfacing needs with the certified under agreed standardized electrical grids with dedicated procedures protocols; the complete characterization of the smart integration of e-mobility complete drivetrains and vehicles with means (e-vehicles) in electricity different combination of power sources grids and in smart city and storage systems in fully demonstrations . programmable driving patterns 10
The fundamental role of international collaborations for accelerating e-mobility In this ambitious research vision and commitment, the international collaborations have a strong acceleration role, as also adequately testified by the established Agreement between EU and USA on Interoperability Centers , and must be strongly reinforced in all the other possible frameworks . ENEA is working in some of these collaboration opportunities , that have been created thanks to the significant inputs and support by the European Union , national governments and International organizations. They may represent, in my view, effective tools to assist basic, applied and pre-normative concerted research and standardization processes to foster and better support the complete implementation and introduction of e-mobility concepts . 11
Examples of existing international collaborations The International Energy Agency has established in 1993 an Implementing Agreement, which has had information and experience exchanges among various countries, such as, Canada, EC, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, USA and many others The Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) , a global forum to share best practices and promote policies and programs for the transition to a global clean energy economy with 23 participating countries and the European Commission , has created the Electric Vehicles Initiative (EVI) The European Commission has finally promoted various collaborations: • the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA) that contributes to coordinate a massive public research effort to develop more efficient and cheaper low carbon energy technologies and involves more than 160 European members; • various technology platforms and initiatives (ERTRAC, EPOSS) also on electric vehicles with the European Green Vehicles Initiatives (EGVI), on Fuel cells and Hydrogen (HFC JU), where the JRC is fully involved, with a dedicated joint technology initiative, and other on automotive components and system integration. 12
ENEA formal commitment The ENEA proposed vision and involvement in a variety of national and international programs, projects and collaborations are a clear commitment of ENEA to pursue and reinforce such initiatives with the persuasion that the choice of e-mobility is the mandatory option for the future of the mankind. Consequently, it will be necessary to concentrate and integrate all our resources, expertise and knowledge at all possible levels , from the national to the international in the on-going and new collaborations , to have e-mobility in place as soon as we can . 13
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM "TOWARDS A TRANSATLANTIC E-MOBILITY MARKET" (Vehicles and grids of the future) Thank you for your attention and ready for answers!!! 14
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