Plug-in and Electrical Vehicles

Transportation currently accounts for about 25% of global CO2 emission, an impact that will worsen with increasing globalisation. This is a great incentive for research and development of electrically powered vehicles. Powered by renewable energy sources, such as sun, wind or waves, emissions could be brought down to zero.

Plug-in technology
Intelligent battery systems make electric vehicles an even more appealing prospect for the future. A car owner can plug his battery into the grid for example during the night when there is a plentiful supply of cheap electricity produced by wind energy. At other times the battery's power can be used either to run the car or to sell to the grid when the price is high and production is primarily based on CO2-emitting coal and gas.

When individual cars stack together, they effectively become large, intelligent batteries plugged into the grid – the perfect partners for smart grids and distributed power generation.

Danish technologies
Denmark is in a strong position in terms of integrating fluctuating and unpredictable energy sources such as wind power in the grid. It is this knowledge that Denmark now aims to exploit in the transport sector by focusing on intelligent battery systems and plug-in cars.