Electric vehicles in the ‘polder’: new consensus policy in the energy sector.
The arrival of the electric car calls for a new polder-model, this time in a socio-technical context. To understand this, we have to take a broader look at the developments in the energy sector: more renewable electricity generation on one hand and increased electricity demand by electric vehicles and heat pumps on the other hand. One of the obvious and acknowledged problems is of course that the wind blows regardless of energy consumption. Or, in other words, the wind and sun don’t care about when the consumer wants to watch the television.
Successful eRally in Rotterdam
Enthusiastic participants was the result of Formula Zero’s Dutch Incert eRally with electric vehicles in the area of Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Participants from the working group ‘Environment and Safety’ of the electric mobility review, grabbed the steering wheel of this type of sustainable mobility themselves on Friday.
R&D workshop User Perspective successful
On Wednesday 13 October, D-incert organized a R&D Roadmapping workshop about the perspective of the user on electric mobility. This workshop was organized for a focused group of experts and was part of the investigation D-incert is currently conducting for the Dutch government. What are the existing technological possibilities for electric road transport? That’s the [...]
E-Car Scriptieprijs wordt uitgereikt tijdens IECC
In zijn NRC column van oktober 2009 lanceerde Joris Luyendijk het idee om de beste bachelor- en masterscripties over elektrische auto’s te belonen met een prijs. Op deze manier wil hij nieuwe kennis over de haalbaarheid van de elektrische auto beschikbaar maken, zowel over de achterliggende technologie als op gebied van communicatie over of de [...]
Innovatieagenda elektrische mobiliteit
Tijdens de International Electric Car Conference (IECC) zal het kennisplatform D-incert de Nederlandse onderzoeks- en innovatieagenda op gebied van elektrische mobiliteit toelichten die is ontwikkeld in opdracht van het Formule E-team van de Nederlandse overheid. In deze innovatieagenda is gekeken naar de meest veelbelovende markt-technologie combinaties. Op basis hiervan adviseert D-incert op welke innovaties en [...]
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