E-Mobility: preparing for the electric car

Technological and political trends are creating an unprecedented momentum for a large-scale breakthrough of electric cars. However, the electric vehicle itself is only a part of the solution. Widespread adoption will require fundamental changes in how energy is sold, distributed and stored. The term E-Mobility is used to describe these evolutions.

This new market will share characteristics with the existing regulated electricity market, the distribution of petrol, the telecom industry and the banking world, which each have their own specific challenges. With E-Mobility, electricity consumption will become more mobile, requiring another model than the current fixed-location approach to billing.

It is clear e-mobility will require mass cooperation between many players and as such require dynamic systems to facilitate exchanges between all parties involved.

Therefore, the success of E-mobility is highly dependable on the ease of use for its customers and the flexibility and adaptability of underlying IT systems to meet with new requirements and standards yet to be defined.

MECOMS™, being a complete end-to-end solution for the energy market and for every market party role, has based its model for e-mobility on the existing deregulated market for electricity while using some elements of the mobile telecom industry. A provider model with an operator and provider role will enable different parties taking up one or several of the specific roles.

Using the provider model approach, MECOMS™ is ready to serve all interested companies like grid operators, charging station Operators (CSO) to providers. The flexibility and modularity of MECOMS™ will enable a company to start with one specific role and expand with another role further in time. This is particularly interesting for current energy suppliers or grid operators wanting to join the race for the future in automobile industry.

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