[{"command":"openDialog","selector":"#drupal-modal","settings":null,"data":"\u003Cdiv id=\u0022republish_modal_form\u0022\u003E\u003Cform class=\u0022modal-form-example-modal-form ecl-form\u0022 data-drupal-selector=\u0022modal-form-example-modal-form\u0022 action=\u0022\/en\/article\/modal\/6419\u0022 method=\u0022post\u0022 id=\u0022modal-form-example-modal-form\u0022 accept-charset=\u0022UTF-8\u0022\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHorizon articles can be republished for free under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.\u003C\/p\u003E\n \u003Cp\u003EYou must give appropriate credit. We ask you to do this by:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n 1) Using the original journalist\u0027s byline\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n 2) Linking back to our original story\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n 3) Using the following text in the footer: This article was originally published in \u003Ca href=\u0027#\u0027\u003EHorizon, the EU Research and Innovation magazine\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n \u003Cp\u003ESee our full republication guidelines \u003Ca href=\u0027\/horizon-magazine\/republish-our-stories\u0027\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n \u003Cp\u003EHTML for this article, including the attribution and page view counter, is below:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\u0022js-form-item form-item js-form-type-textarea form-item-body-content js-form-item-body-content ecl-form-group ecl-form-group--text-area form-no-label ecl-u-mv-m\u0022\u003E\n \n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n \u003Ctextarea data-drupal-selector=\u0022edit-body-content\u0022 aria-describedby=\u0022edit-body-content--description\u0022 id=\u0022edit-body-content\u0022 name=\u0022body_content\u0022 rows=\u00225\u0022 cols=\u002260\u0022 class=\u0022form-textarea ecl-text-area\u0022\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EElectric roads to charge your car as you drive\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt\u2019s part of a series of projects looking at improving the infrastructure for electric vehicles to encourage people to invest in electric transport and reduce emissions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne of the obstacles to the popularity of electric vehicles is so-called range anxiety \u2013 the worry about how far you can travel before your battery runs out. Wireless charging could change all that.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u2018Going to wireless charging, either stationary or dynamic, then you forget all the problems with range,\u2019 said Dr Angelos Amditis, at the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems in Athens, Greece.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr Amditis coordinates the EU-funded FABRIC project, which is looking into the feasibility of wireless, or inductive, charging for electric vehicles.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis works by having a cable or charging hub buried in the asphalt, and a coil on the underside of the vehicle. When the vehicle is in the vicinity of the charging hub, it wirelessly connects and begins to charge.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESo-called static charging is done when your car is parked, for example in your garage overnight. Stationary charging is done in short bursts, for example at traffic lights or tolls, while dynamic charging keeps your car fully powered while it is on the move via induction loops under the road surface.\u003Cblockquote class=\u0022tw-text-center tw-text-blue tw-font-bold tw-text-2xl lg:tw-w-1\/2 tw-border-2 tw-border-blue tw-p-12 tw-my-8 lg:tw-m-12 lg:tw--ml-16 tw-float-left\u0022\u003E\n \u003Cspan class=\u0022tw-text-5xl tw-rotate-180\u0022\u003E\u201c\u003C\/span\u003E\n \u003Cp class=\u0022tw-font-serif tw-italic\u0022\u003E\u2018You forget all the problems with range.\u2019\u003C\/p\u003E\n \u003Cfooter\u003E\n \u003Ccite class=\u0022tw-not-italic tw-font-normal tw-text-sm tw-text-black\u0022\u003EDr Angelos Amditis, Institute of Communication and Computer Systems, Greece\u003C\/cite\u003E\n \u003C\/footer\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u2018The most advanced method is when you are really driving, for example on the highway,\u2019 said Dr Amditis. \u2018One of the lanes is equipped, and then when you are travelling you are getting some charging.\u2019\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFABRIC researchers are coming up with a plan to define which solutions are most suitable in which circumstances. For example, stationary charging may be suitable to use in cities whereas dynamic makes more sense on highways.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHowever, both stationary and dynamic charging have technical challenges to overcome before they get to market, according to Axel Barkow from the EU-funded UNPLUGGED project, not least that more development needs to be done on fast-charging batteries.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u2018There are still scenarios where you will need a cable. Nowadays, when we talk about fast charging or ultra-fast charging, there is not a technology in sight which might be wireless.\u2019\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EStatic charging\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHowever, he says that progress is more advanced with static charging, which happens when a car is parked. \u2018In terms of the static scenario, I think this is something that will be on the market very, very soon.\u2019\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe UNPLUGGED project built two demo vehicles - a passenger car and a delivery vehicle - to investigate how inductive static charging could work in practice. Barkow says that one of the main obstacles standing in the way of wide rollout is the lack of an industry-wide standard for the chargers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u2018There is not yet a final standard defined which can be used,\u2019 he said. While this is not necessarily a problem for private cars, it is for other vehicles.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u2018In your garage it\u2019s very unlikely that a car other than your own will charge on your charging pad. (But) putting things into public infrastructure, things look very different.\u2019\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMichael Glotz-Richter, a sustainable mobility project manager with the City of Bremen, Germany, coordinates the EU-funded ELIPTIC project, which is looking at the electrification of public transport.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe says that public transport has a huge role to play in electrification. \u2018When we talk about electrification, or electric mobility, we need to understand mobility as a wider thing and not only cars.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u2018An articulated bus consumes, per year, 40 000 litres of diesel. When you compare it with the approach of electrifying cars, you can say that electrification of one of these big buses is having impacts like electrifying 100 cars.\u2019\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe ELIPTIC project is looking to make public transport infrastructure more efficient. One idea is to install a system that can use excess energy from tram systems to power buses using a sub-station or by directly connecting to existing overhead lines.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfigure role=\u0022group\u0022 class=\u0022@aligncenter@\u0022\u003E\n\u003Cimg alt=\u0022Electric buses could be charged from tram lines. Image courtesy of ELIPTIC\u0022 height=\u0022552\u0022 src=\u0022\/research-and-innovation\/sites\/default\/files\/hm\/electric%20bus_credit%20ELIPTIC.JPG\u0022 title=\u0022Electric buses could be charged from tram lines. Image courtesy of ELIPTIC\u0022 width=\u00221200\u0022\u003E\n\u003Cfigcaption class=\u0022tw-italic tw-mb-4\u0022\u003EElectric buses could be charged from tram lines. Image courtesy of ELIPTIC\u003C\/figcaption\u003E\n\u003C\/figure\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThey are also working on a way to use a flywheel to store the excess energy created from electric brakes on trams, and how to connect the electricity supplies of trams, trolley buses and metro lines.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHowever, Glotz-Richter says that for electrification to have a positive environmental impact beyond reducing air pollution, you also need to look at the energy source. The constantly increasing production of renewable energy in the EU, which replaces more carbon-intensive sources, is the key to fully decarbonising transport and solving air quality problems at the same time.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\u0022moreinfoblock\u0022\u003E\n \u003Ch3\u003ERolling out green mobility\u003C\/h3\u003E\n \u003Cp\u003EElectric transport has been touted as a tool in moving towards a low-carbon economy and contributing to the goals agreed at the COP21 climate change conference to limit warming to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels. However, researchers say that without also being part of a wider change in the way we think about transport, the effect will be minimal.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u2018Electric mobility is one part of the solution but it needs to be integrated in a wider \u201cavoid, shift, improve\u201d context,\u2019 said Oliver Lah, from the Wuppertal Institute in Berlin, Germany. \u2018We have to first avoid all the unnecessary travel (and then) shift over to low-carbon mobility modes that are sustainable in a much broader sense than electric cars. For the last few remaining vehicles we will have to think first about how many wheels they actually need, and then, for the very few remaining cars, these will need to be electric to get to a 1.5 (degree) stabilisation pathway.\u0027\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe coordinates the EU-funded SOLUTIONS project which aims to increase the rollout of sustainable mobility solutions by sharing best practice between cities and countries around the world. The project also developed the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.uemi.net\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EUrban Electric Mobility Initiative\u003C\/a\u003E (UEMI) in cooperation with UN-Habitat, which aims to integrate e-mobility solutions into a wider sustainable transport concept.\u0026nbsp;He says that some solutions, such as the high tax Norway puts on non-electric cars, are effective but would be politically difficult in other places.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u2018The concept of taxing something that is harmful to society and redistributing that (to something that) is beneficial to society \u2013 public transport, walking, cycling and then e-mobility\u0026nbsp;\u2013 is a very sensible approach. 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