Preparing for More Sustainable Mobility

Since the days of crude oil and other fossil fuels must and will gradually come to an end, the transformation will also proceed in the mobility sector. In this chapter on sustainable mobility in our municipalities, we focus on electric drives – including hydrogen solutions – for micromobility, passenger cars and heavy-duty vehicles. Micromobility relates to devices such as bicycles, pedelecs or scooters – i. e. motorised or non-motorised micro and lightweight vehicles in the broadest sense for single passenger transport (ivm, 2019). Firstly, you can read about the development in this field. We cannot predict any research breakthroughs, for example, in relation to compactness and weight, or the price of fuels. The people responsible in our municipalities, therefore, face a challenging task: preparing the infrastructure and making lots of effort without knowing which technologies will prevail and when exactly. We try to help with this in Section 4.4. Leading up to this point, we present the key challenges for this sector (Section 4.1). We present the latest facts about battery and fuel cell-based vehicles (Section 4.2) and explain how customers can contribute to making our energy system more flexible – while at the same time benefiting financially – by connecting their vehicles to the grid (Section 4.3).