Periodic Reporting for period 2 - MEISTER (Mobility Environmentally-friendly, Integrated and economically Sustainable Through innovative Electromobility Recharging infrastructure and new business models)
Berichtszeitraum: 2020-03-01 bis 2022-02-28
EU has made a commitment to ensure full coverage of EV infrastructure across its members. However, EV infrastructure in public areas is still considered too expensive to be deployed by the private sector, mostly due to an uncertain –in the best case- ROI. Current business models and the revenues that are generated from EVSE are not sufficient to ensure a sustained, healthy market growth. This results in a lack of confidence in the EV sector as a whole and leads to uncertain users hesitating to buy EVs, triggering a vicious circle of a frozen demand because of an unsatisfactory offer and vice versa.
MEISTER delivered a set of tools to foster e-mobility large scale adoption by (1) demonstrating innovative, sustainable business models to lower installation and operation costs of charging infrastructure, (2) optimizing usage of infrastructure by the smart combination of charging and parking services, (3) integrating EV within urban SUMPs, including the establishment of EV sharing and the inclusion of EV within MaaS schemas to reduce CO2 emissions and optimize urban space usage, (4) providing interoperable platforms and services to users for an easy, convenient and barrier-free access to charging, billing and smart grid services.
Thus, MEISTER has helped to create the conditions for smart e-mobility market take up in cities, by means of developing integrated approaches, smart solutions and innovative, sustainable business models, which were tested and validated in three urban areas in Southern, Central and Northern Europe: Malaga (Spain), Berlin (Germany), and Stockholm (Sweden). These three sites are EU leaders in the field of e-mobility, have complementary contexts and share a common vision on EV deployment.
In spite of that MEISTER has had to face the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mobility patterns, the project has been able to demostrate the potential to reduce CO2 emissions, to induce citizenship to change from private transport towards shared mobility systems, to reduce parking demand, to optimize the use of charging infrastructure, to make more cost-efficient the EV fleet in municipalities, to solve the capacity issues in the distribution grid and contribute to a decrease in system costs and operational costs for the CPO's, to introduce environmental criteria in the procurements of city councils in order to increase the use of EVs in the private providers’ fleet, to make greener the last mile distribution and much more.
All these aspects have helped to increase the demand for EVs as well to reduce the installation costs of EVSE infrastructure. Business models and public-private partnership frameworks developed and demonstrated by the project has been well documented to facilitate trans-European transferability and impact.
MEISTER delivered a set of tools to foster e-mobility large scale adoption by (1) demonstrating innovative, sustainable business models to lower installation and operation costs of charging infrastructure, (2) optimizing usage of infrastructure by the smart combination of charging and parking services, (3) integrating EV within urban SUMPs, including the establishment of EV sharing and the inclusion of EV within MaaS schemas to reduce CO2 emissions and optimize urban space usage, (4) providing interoperable platforms and services to users for an easy, convenient and barrier-free access to charging, billing and smart grid services.
Thus, MEISTER has helped to create the conditions for smart e-mobility market take up in cities, by means of developing integrated approaches, smart solutions and innovative, sustainable business models, which were tested and validated in three urban areas in Southern, Central and Northern Europe: Malaga (Spain), Berlin (Germany), and Stockholm (Sweden). These three sites are EU leaders in the field of e-mobility, have complementary contexts and share a common vision on EV deployment.
In spite of that MEISTER has had to face the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mobility patterns, the project has been able to demostrate the potential to reduce CO2 emissions, to induce citizenship to change from private transport towards shared mobility systems, to reduce parking demand, to optimize the use of charging infrastructure, to make more cost-efficient the EV fleet in municipalities, to solve the capacity issues in the distribution grid and contribute to a decrease in system costs and operational costs for the CPO's, to introduce environmental criteria in the procurements of city councils in order to increase the use of EVs in the private providers’ fleet, to make greener the last mile distribution and much more.
All these aspects have helped to increase the demand for EVs as well to reduce the installation costs of EVSE infrastructure. Business models and public-private partnership frameworks developed and demonstrated by the project has been well documented to facilitate trans-European transferability and impact.
MEISTER project has progressed with the execution of the differnet tasks according to the timetable until month 42. Talking about the milestones of MEISTER project, five milestones of the MEISTER project have been achieved so far as forecasted in this period completing so all the milestones: (1) Definition of user requirements and necessities, (2) Specification of MEISTER platform, (3) Intermediate software prototypes, (4) Integrated MEISTER platform, (5) MEISTER pilot sites demonstration readiness, (6) MEISTER pilot sites demonstration, (7) MEISTER cross-site evaluation and impact assessment, (8) MEISTER business models defined, tested, (9) eSUMPS knowledge base software operational.
The last product (P1: MEISTER Replication, Market Uptake and Deployment Handbook) was finished in the period and the products P2: MEISTER Roaming & Accounting Platform, P3: MEISTER Integrated Real-Time Information & Booking Services and P5: Smart Charging and Storage Platform were demostrated within the pilot tests. Prodcut P4: MEISTER European eMobility Expertise Centre (EeMEC) and eSUMPS knowledge base carried out their first association activities.
Finally, seven different business cases (within six business models) were succesfully tested in the thre cities: Málaga (BC2: E-carsharing in municipal fleet, BC4:City-E-Logistics in Ultra-Low-Emission Hubs and BC6: Smart Park&Charge), Berlin (BC1: E-Carsharing as a Housing Service, BC5: Smart Park&Charge) and Stockholm (BC3:Delivery of Home Care Services with EVs and BC10: Smart Charging).
The last product (P1: MEISTER Replication, Market Uptake and Deployment Handbook) was finished in the period and the products P2: MEISTER Roaming & Accounting Platform, P3: MEISTER Integrated Real-Time Information & Booking Services and P5: Smart Charging and Storage Platform were demostrated within the pilot tests. Prodcut P4: MEISTER European eMobility Expertise Centre (EeMEC) and eSUMPS knowledge base carried out their first association activities.
Finally, seven different business cases (within six business models) were succesfully tested in the thre cities: Málaga (BC2: E-carsharing in municipal fleet, BC4:City-E-Logistics in Ultra-Low-Emission Hubs and BC6: Smart Park&Charge), Berlin (BC1: E-Carsharing as a Housing Service, BC5: Smart Park&Charge) and Stockholm (BC3:Delivery of Home Care Services with EVs and BC10: Smart Charging).
MEISTER strategy is twofold: (1) to increase the offer on charging infrastructure by developing new cooperation frameworks, reducing 20% installation costs (i.e. optimizing usage of EVSE by integration of charging and parking services) and 40% operational costs (i.e. smart charging, ICT solutions); and (2) to increase demand (i.e. 15% increase on consumption of kWh at EVSE) by reducing 20% charging prices (i.e. smart charging), simplifying the process of charging and payment (i.e. interoperable EVSE and intelligent billing), providing integrated services and EVSE real-time information (i.e. routing, booking parking-charging spaces), and establishing ultra-low emissions areas (i.e. increase the usage of RES powered EVs).
MEISTER was enable CO2 savings within the three pilot sites thanks to the technological outputs and business models implemented. Avoiding ICE vehicles’ emissions and implementing vehicle sharing results in relevant CO2 savings within the MEISTER scope.
The results have clearly proved that the market ramp up of EVs and EVSE has been accelerated in all three pilot cities during the project period. However, this exogenous effect on the macro-level has been counteracted by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mobility patterns, which has strongly affected the demonstration of almost every BC. Together, those two exogenous events have significantly impeded the key goal of the IA to prove or at least point out a causality between the BCs demonstration and the measured impacts in the environmental, economic, social as well as energy and transport system impact dimension. On the other hand, those circumstances have also emphasized the relevance of the b-a-u scenarios and the distinct surveys conducted with various stakeholders of the BCs.
The solutions and business cases successfully tested in MEISTER boost in the direction to accomplish EC energy and climate objectives. For example, BC3 and BC4 pushed to change ICEV for EV technology in private companies. In addition, one of the main objectives of the European Green Deal is making transport sustainable for all. BC1 and BC2 (e-carsharing services) went on that direction trying to get EV technology to outskirts and people out of early adopters or residents in areas where the business cooperative models are already working. Besides, both BC tried to make behavioural changes that will traduce not only in CO2 savings but also in less demand of raw materials by avoiding the use of private vehicles. MEISTER tackles energy efficiency from different approaches: change of technology, optimizing the use of the charging infrastructure (BC5 and BC6) and by means of smart charging schemes (BC10). Besides, smart charging and use of EV also increase the possibility to introduce renewables in the transport sector.
In addition, MEISTER achieved some impacts on policy making: e.g. the City of Stockholm has introduced environmental criteria in the procurement of homecare services in order to increase the use of EVs in the private providers’ fleet.
MEISTER was enable CO2 savings within the three pilot sites thanks to the technological outputs and business models implemented. Avoiding ICE vehicles’ emissions and implementing vehicle sharing results in relevant CO2 savings within the MEISTER scope.
The results have clearly proved that the market ramp up of EVs and EVSE has been accelerated in all three pilot cities during the project period. However, this exogenous effect on the macro-level has been counteracted by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mobility patterns, which has strongly affected the demonstration of almost every BC. Together, those two exogenous events have significantly impeded the key goal of the IA to prove or at least point out a causality between the BCs demonstration and the measured impacts in the environmental, economic, social as well as energy and transport system impact dimension. On the other hand, those circumstances have also emphasized the relevance of the b-a-u scenarios and the distinct surveys conducted with various stakeholders of the BCs.
The solutions and business cases successfully tested in MEISTER boost in the direction to accomplish EC energy and climate objectives. For example, BC3 and BC4 pushed to change ICEV for EV technology in private companies. In addition, one of the main objectives of the European Green Deal is making transport sustainable for all. BC1 and BC2 (e-carsharing services) went on that direction trying to get EV technology to outskirts and people out of early adopters or residents in areas where the business cooperative models are already working. Besides, both BC tried to make behavioural changes that will traduce not only in CO2 savings but also in less demand of raw materials by avoiding the use of private vehicles. MEISTER tackles energy efficiency from different approaches: change of technology, optimizing the use of the charging infrastructure (BC5 and BC6) and by means of smart charging schemes (BC10). Besides, smart charging and use of EV also increase the possibility to introduce renewables in the transport sector.
In addition, MEISTER achieved some impacts on policy making: e.g. the City of Stockholm has introduced environmental criteria in the procurement of homecare services in order to increase the use of EVs in the private providers’ fleet.