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E-MOBILITY
The Platform for Electro-mobility
By Thomas Willson (pictured) local air quality, noise pollution and Platform for Electro-mobility counts
facilitating the integration of renewable twenty-three members, sharing a vision
The European Union (EU) energy sources in the EU’s energy for a sustainable, multimodal transport
stands at the cross-roads of system, present a compelling case system in which people and goods are
transport policy and emissions. to strengthen our support for the primarily moved across land in Europe
At present, transport remains technology. using sustainable electricity.
the only sector bucking the trend on
emission reductions, accounting for The “Platform for Electro-mobility” was In April 2016, the Platform for electro-
34% of all emissions from non-emission created as a means to support such a mobility was officially launched, holding
trading system (ETS) sectors. Electro- reality, bringing together likeminded an event to mark the publication of its
mobility offers an unparalleled solution stakeholders across industries and first recommendations paper, which
to address such difficulties, presenting transport modes, representing outlines needed actions for the EU to
the opportunity to reduce oil imports, producers, infrastructure managers, become a leader in e-mobility’. The
improve efficiency and reduce carbon operators and users of transport, launch event featured Henrik Hololei,
emissions, by replacing fossil mobility cities and civil society. At present, the Director-General at DG MOVE, and
within cities and across long distances. Panellists from DG CLIMA, Council
In addition, benefits in improving Presidency of the Netherlands,
Alstom, Renault-Nissan and the City
of Manchester, who all underlined the
need for electrification of the transport
sector to play a key role in achieving the
goals of the EU’s Energy Union Strategy.
It is in this context that the Platform
for Electro-mobility approaches the
EU’s Energy Union strategy, which
aims to ensure ‘secure, affordable and
climate-friendly energy’ through five
reinforcing ‘pillars’: supply security, a
fully integrated internal energy market,
energy efficiency, climate action and
research and innovation. A key priority
of the Junker Commission, the Energy
Union made clear that electrification
of transport is crucial to address oil
dependency and decarbonisation of
the sector, urging a quickening of pace
in the uptake of electro-mobility.
The Platform for Electro-mobility
welcomes the strategy and calls for
more work to be done to embed
electro-mobility within the Energy
Union. It is the view of the Platform
that electro-mobility is able to support
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