Cars powered by E.ON electricity protect climate
'Today, the question is no longer if but when we will be driving electric cars', Wulf H. Bernotat said this week at the national strategy conference on electric mobility in Berlin. The E.ON CEO underlined the advantages of electric vehicles: 'We can use these cars to save energy, reduce our dependence on oil imports and substantially cut carbon emissions in the transport sector. Cars powered by E.ON electricity in Germany would today only emit 80 grams of CO2 per kilometre, which is half that of an average car with a combustion engine and well below the future EU limit of 120 grams. And when E.ON increases the share of renewables in its generation portfolio to 24 % by 2030 as planned, driving a car will become even more environmentally compatible.'
Since the electricity industry is already subject to emission trading legislation, electrifying transport would also be a way of including road transport in an ef-ficient climate protection mechanism, Bernotat said.
E.ON also sees electric cars as a storage system on wheels for wind energy, which is only available intermittently. Cars could refuel at night and feed their energy back into the grid when they are not used during the day. Here, E.ON is already developing concepts with the Environment Ministry and VW as part of a fleet trial project. Other projects are also being looked at.
The link between the cars and the grid could be so-called 'smart meters'. These minicomputers could automatically 'refuel' cars at night when more electricity is available. E.ON is already using about 1.8 million of these meters across Europe, making it the second largest provider of this technology, which is set to replace conventional electricity meters in homes over the coming years.
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