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Electromobility—The Current State

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Accelerating E-Mobility in Germany

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E-Mobility, short for Electromobility, means the electrification of individual transport. Unlike mass transport, which was electrified long ago in the case of trains and cable cars, individual transport, i.e. cars, trucks and motorcycles, has been dominated by the combustion engine for over one hundred years. But meanwhile a number of manufacturers have emerged that offer electric vehicles from series production.

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    Federal Motor Transport Authority (2014).

  2. 2.

    Federal Motor Transport Authority (2015c).

  3. 3.

    Federal Motor Transport Authority (2015a, p. 3).

  4. 4.

    Federal Motor Transport Authority (2014).

  5. 5.

    Federal Motor Transport Authority (2015b, p. 12).

  6. 6.

    Federal Ministry of Education and Research (2009, p. 2).

  7. 7.

    The Press and Information Office of the Federal Government (2012).

  8. 8.

    CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group in the German Bundestag (2013, p. 15).

  9. 9.

    Federal Motor Transport Authority (2010, p. 24).

  10. 10.

    Federal Ministry of Education and Research (2009, pp. 17–18).

  11. 11.

    Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (2010).

  12. 12.

    The list price of the e-vehicle is reduced by 450 EUR/kWh of the battery capacity (to a maximum of 9.500 EUR) and the reduced price is basis for the 1 %-rule of the company car taxation. Therefore the tax burden for the employee is lowered significantly.

  13. 13.

    Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (2014).

  14. 14.

    Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (2014, p. 6).

  15. 15.

    Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (2014, p. 22).

  16. 16.

    Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (2014, p. 56).

  17. 17.

    European Commission (2009).

  18. 18.

    Volkswagen AG (2016b, p. 29).

  19. 19.

    Toyota Deutschland GmbH (2016a).

  20. 20.

    Toyota Deutschland GmbH (2016b).

  21. 21.

    European Environment Agency (2014).

  22. 22.

    A good overview of the current offer of e-vehicles in Germany can be found at: http://www.goingelectric.de/elektroautos/.

  23. 23.

    See recitals 2, 18 und 29 of Directive 2009/28/EU.

  24. 24.

    See recital 57 of Directive 2009/28/EU.

  25. 25.

    European Commission (2011).

  26. 26.

    European Commission (2011, para. 2.5).

  27. 27.

    The connector of Type 2 has already been adopted by German car manufacturers as the standard application.

  28. 28.

    Eurostat (2015).

  29. 29.

    Ifeu—Institut für Energie und Umweltforschung Heidelberg GmbH (2009, p. 3).

  30. 30.

    Golloch (2005, p. 1).

  31. 31.

    Department of Energy & Climate Change in the UK (2014, p. 38).

  32. 32.

    Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (2014, p. 41).

  33. 33.

    See subparagraph 2.1.1 of Annex A of Directive 2007/34/EC.

  34. 34.

    See Art. 8 of Regulation (EU) No. 540/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on the sound level of motor vehicles and of replacement silencing systems.

  35. 35.

    See Auto, Motor und Sport (2014).

  36. 36.

    Auto, Motor und Sport (2012).

  37. 37.

    According to calculations by Tesla Motors, Inc. (2013).

  38. 38.

    Ökoinstitut e.V. (2011, p. 9).

  39. 39.

    Federal Ministry of Education and Research (2009, p. 8).

  40. 40.

    Tesla Motors, Inc. (2016).

  41. 41.

    BMW AG (2016).

  42. 42.

    Volkswagen AG (2016b, p. 8).

  43. 43.

    auto, motor und sport (2014).

  44. 44.

    BDEW (2015a).

  45. 45.

    See Art. 4 para. 4 of directive 2014/94/EU.

  46. 46.

    At BDEW alone over 100 charging station operators (EVSE Operator) are registered: https://bdew-codes.de/Codenumbers/EMobilityId/OperatorIdList.

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Adam, M. (2016). Electromobility—The Current State. In: Accelerating E-Mobility in Germany. SpringerBriefs in Law. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44884-8_1

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