Climate change and increasing resource scarcity is today causing many people to reshape their lives in favor of a more considered and sustainable existence. New lifestyle models, modern technologies and pollution call for new mobility solutions. Fraunhofer scientists are analyzing and evaluating the development of trends within the fields of mobility and transport in light of what this means for the future.
Data logger optimizes mobility scenarios
Der Datenlogger der Projektgruppe Neue Antriebssysteme NAS hilft beim Entwickeln neuer Hybrid- und Elektrofahrzeuge und zudem steigert er die Effizienz von Fahrzeugflotten.
Bringing mobility into Germany’s transition to a new energy economy is a complex undertaking. While carmakers are developing more economical com- bustion engines and alternative drive systems, research establishments and companies are working on making more efficient use of vehicles. A new data logger developed by Fraunhofer researchers simultaneously collects data from vehicles with combustion engines, electric drives, external sensors, and location data, and permits the development of new hybrid and electric vehicles.
Sharing cars instead of buying them – the concept of car-sharing already exists in many large towns and cities. Fraunhofer scientists predict that in the electro-mobile future, urban dwellers will make shared use of the infrastructure and a large number of vehicles. In the Fraunhofer Beyond Tomorrow project entitled “Shared use of e-mobility: vehicles, data and infrastructure”, or GeMo for short, they are working hard to transform this vision into reality.
Whether the goal of one million electric cars in Germany by 2020 can be reached is currently being widely discussed. The complexity of the situation is illustrated by the results of a study by the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI "Market launch scenarios for electric vehicles", commissioned by the German National Platform for Electric Mobility (NPE) and the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech).
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