to allow the use of electric cars over long distances

The use of the electric vehicle in the city raises hope. Both fight against noise, air pollution than to get out of our oil dependence. Instinctively, everyone knows that the automotive industry is at a turning point to switch in the 21st century. Provided that this change is intelligently supervised and supported financially. Last October 1, the Minister of the environment and transport, Jean-Louis Borloo has presented a plan of EUR 1.5 billion to develop the electric car and its corollary, recharging infrastructure. Indeed, the recharge of the batteries will be probably essentially home evening or night, or in the workplace day. However it still will need to install a vast network of catch, whether in the streets, public car parks, service stations or shopping centres. to allow the use of electric cars over long distances. As all manufacturers declare wanting to commercialize their new public electric models next year, there is urgency for the France. Thus, the Prime Minister, François Fillon, confirmed that a substantial portion of the large (probably EUR 900 million) loan would support the deployment of the network, a folder followed by the Secretary of State for ecology, Chantal Jouanno. Various amendments have been introduced in the Act, Grenelle 2 to give impetus to the electric car, whether to require manufacturers of buildings to equip the car parks of recharging outlets, to encourage employers to give access to the employees to recharge equipment or to adjust the law to allow local communities to develop projects of auto-partage or leasing service of "electric mobility". Finally, the Government entrusted to a new subsidiary of ERDF folder of the deployment of the terminals.

Foster the creativity of the start-up

Chairman of the SMEs of Douai DBT, pioneer of the terminals of recharge for electric vehicles, Hervé Borgoltz welcomed the mobilization of the actors, but is concerned about the monopoly role of ERDF. "For the refills develop rapidly and well, it must build on terminals simple, easy to access, suitable for all car models and interactive with telecommunications services, that allow, for example, guided by telephone operators to pillar closest, to tell him if it is free or not, how long he has to wait".", etc.", he explains. All car manufacturers to think, but it must foster the creativity of the start-up to find little by little the best system of mobility urban.

Already, the projects and announcements are multiplying. While the Mayor of Paris has confirmed its willingness to launch its service of electric cars in auto-partage Autolib' next year Strasbourg has just launched a project to provide corporate and institutional 100 new generation Toyota hybrid cars with Toyota and EDF. DBT was commissioned to build a network of 40 posts, and the city is committed to a common system with the cross-border Germany. In Ile-de-France, Renault and EDF are Save (Seine downstream and vehicle electrical) project in Yvelines to test a service of provision of 100 vehicles electric Renault, which recently announced an agreement with the second Italian energy company A2A to conduct a project pilot for electric vehicle in Italy in Milan and Brescia experimentation.