Workshop: The procurement of electric vehicles

This EU workshop took place on 7 - 8 October 2014. All materials including presentations are available to download below.

ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS

As part of the Clean Fleets project, a series of four European workshops were organised with the aim of demonstrating how procurement of clean and energy-efficient vehicles is done in practice and to exchange and learn from each other’s experiences.

This European workshop in Rotterdam, hosted by Clean Fleets project partner the City of Rotterdam, took place over as part of the Rotterdam Electric Mobility Conference - REMC14.

Background - Clean vehicles in Rotterdam - Rotterdam's sustainable mobility policy aims to facilitate the economically very important distribution activities of the main port, while reducing the environmental impact of traffic.

The target of the Rotterdam Climate Initiative to half CO₂ emissions by 2025 from 1990 levels requires a modal shift to cleaner mobility options such as public transport, car sharing, and cycling, as well as clean vehicles and clean fuels.

The city supports electric (and plug-in electric) vehicles as the most promising type of vehice solution for a sustainable mobility future with a view to clean use. To accelerate the introduction of battery electric transport modes, Rotterdam has introduced the programme 'Rotterdam Electric', an integrated approach for electric transport.

This programme concerns all initiatives in the field of electric transport, in which Rotterdam strongly seeks cooperation with the market. The programme aims to challenge the market and to boost promising developments for electric mobility concepts.

Workshop impressions

Presentations

Sustainable vehicles and fuel developments in Rotterdam and region Peter Witvliet Manager Roteb Lease	The Clean Fleets project Simon Clement Project coordinator ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability	Electric & CNG vans at Joulz Edwin van Vliet Senior buyer Joulz Energy Infrastructures

RET and sustainable mobility Theo Konijnendijk Coordinator Innovation RET	Meet the Vehicles Donatello Piras Moderator REMC14	The Rotterdam experience Lutske Lindeman Programme manager Rotterdam Electric

Development of EV-batteries Professor Peter van den Bossche Lecturer Vrije Universiteit Brussel	Green Deal Richard van der Wulp City of Rotterdam	Towards a sustainable business model for public chargingprocurement of public charging points Tim van beek Tender manager EV Consult/City of Rotterdam