Translation of "projet des véhicules électriques-montréal " (French → English) :

7. Emphasises the urgent need for new, modernised, smart and flexible energy infrastructure at all network levels, especially smart grids, to allow for more flexible back-up and balancing power capacity, including individual microgeneration and storage systems, new electricity uses (such as electric vehicles) and demand-response programmes; stresses the need to ensure greater cooperation on the part of transmission system operators and the determined, transparent, coordinated and timely involvement of all stakeholders in the extension and modernisation of the energy infrastructure; welcomes the strong emphasis placed on sma ...[+++]rt energy projects of common interest in the Connecting Europe Facility, while regretting that only two smart grid projects were included in the current two-year list; stresses that smart grid projects at distribution system level must be taken into account; emphasises that infrastructure projects must fulfil sustainability and competitiveness criteria and be underpinned by an integrated approach, which shall be ensured by involving distribution system operators; also underlines the importance of developing North-South energy connections in the Mediterranean;

Following up the Final Report of the CARS21 Group, the Commission will coordinate all policy actions supporting the market introduction of clean vehicles, including the deployment of plug-in electric and hybrid vehicles by ensuring timely regulation and standards, facilitating the roll out of recharging infrastructure, and potentially providing seed funding for key RD and demonstration projects (CARS 2020 Communication by November 2012).

Following up the Final Report of the CARS21 Group, the Commission will coordinate all policy actions supporting the market introduction of clean vehicles, including the deployment of plug-in electric and hybrid vehicles by ensuring timely regulation and standards, facilitating the roll out of recharging infrastructure, and potentially providing seed funding for key RD and demonstration projects (CARS 2020 Communication by November 2012).

- launch an EU-wide electromobility demonstration project in 2011 within the European Green Cars Initiative to assess consumer behaviour, usage patterns and foster user awareness of all types of electric technology as well as to test new developments in the area of standardisation for electric vehicles; future initiatives of this kind may be targeted specifically to those urban areas that have sustained air quality exceedance leve ...[+++]ls.

4. The potential of batteries on board of electric vehicles to serve as energy storage for the electricity grid is being investigated in recently selected projects the Commission is already funding through the Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development.

In the framework of the European Economic Recovery Plan, the Commission has launched the European Green Cars Initiative[22]. In 2009, the Commission will fund new projects related to electric vehicles, which will cover batteries, electric power trains and auxiliaries, information and communication technologies and an "electromobility" demonstration project.