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34 Autumn 2016 European Energy Innovation
E-MOBILITY
Europe at crossroads: defining
the face of future mobility
By Hans ten Berge, Secretary General, EURELECTRIC
Transport is responsible one begins, electro-mobility opens
for about a quarter of EU the doorway to new markets and new
emissions and is almost technologies.
exclusively dependent on
oil. As the Energy Union aims to break However, in order to make the shift to
oil dependency and to decarbonise electro-mobility, a cornerstone of Europe’s
transport, especially for road and rail, 2016 decarbonisation of transport
electro-mobility is the key technology strategy, there is a need for an overarching
for replacing fossil energy sources. As EU wide strategy to ensure that benefits
the old energy order ends and a new are maximised and risks mitigated.
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