Course: Electrification of Urban Mobility: How to Get it Right

Did you know… the first electric bicycle was available in 1897, the first battery electric bus was in use in 1907, the first Porsche car was electric and, around 1900, …

Because of the specific planning challenges faced to develop and implement an electric mobility strategy, a special addendum – what I called a “plug-in” – has been developed for the …

As we said before, “Electrification of transport combines an energy efficient power train system with the opportunity of using any source of energy other than fossil fuels including those from …

Upon completion of this course, we want you to walk away with a clear, actionable and structure approach that you start acting upon tomorrow. That’s our last step in this …

Maybe you are now feeling a bit overwhelmed again? How can you get electrification right to tackle these urgent challenges? I’m here to show you that it can be done, …

Challenge 1: Clean energy The first challenge is a very fundamental one: We need to make sure the switch to electric engines goes hand in hand with the switch to …

Challenge 4: Affordability The fourth challenge that we need to overcome to electrify urban mobility is affordability. There are two dimensions to this: We need to get the economics right. …

Challenge 2: Infrastructure and vehicles When looking into the factors that drive consumer choices around electric vehicles, infrastructure is usually cited as one of the main reasons alongside the price …

Now that we know electrification stands a good chance of breaking through this time, how will we know that we make the right use of it? We know electrification must …

There are a wide range of electrification solutions. So many, that it may be overwhelming to start looking at them. I’d like to introduce a matrix that I think will …

We have just looked at the positive, motivating outlook on why we want to transform our cities. But there is also a more grim, threatening part of this, that we …

Why do cities matter when they only represent ~3% of land on Earth? Cities may only be a small part of the Earth’s surface, but they play a major role …