GreenCharge Project Deliverable: D2.14 Intermodal On-street Car Sharing Stations in New Housing Development
Creators: name: Look, Dennis
name: Schüller, Klaus
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: eMobility
Car sharing
EV fleet management

description: This deliverable is intended to give the reader insides into the e-Carsharing business demonstrated in BREMEN DEMO 2 (BRE.D2). Car-Sharing as such is not in the overall focus of the GreenCharge project, but as the project is trying to overcome hurdles in the use of electric vehicles, e-Car-Sharing became an interesting use case. Especially charging related issues often appear in close connection to operational questions, making the setup, operation and scaling of a e-Car-Sharing business much more complex than a comparable business using ICE Cars. The Bremen demonstrator was able to show that the Bremen law for the provision of parking spaces in new construction projects can help to promote e-car sharing. Cooperation between housing associations and e-car sharing providers makes it possible to efficiently overcome the hurdles of set-up by the provision of parking space and charging infrastructure. The System firstly rolled out in the first half of the GreenCharge Project was revised and adjusted based on the experiences gained during the operational phase in order to provide a better user experience and to deal with issues caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite this improvement, the use of the vehicles was restrained. To increase the utilization of both the charging infrastructure and the shared cars, two potential extensions of the demonstrator have been tested for their feasibility: Extension of Fleet management system with Charge Point Operations System The first goal of this extension is to show how sharing charge points between the shared EV fleet and private users could enhance the reliability of recharging options in the neighborhood on the one hand and produce an additional positive business outcome on the other hand. Extension of Fleet management system with Mobility as a Service Platform The second goal is to extend the fleet management with a connection to a local Mobility as a Service Provider to show how an intermodal service can help to promote the use of shared EVs. As a result, however, the implementation of the outlined extensions met with serious obstacles and therefore were not implemented. The sharing of charging points requires a complex connection of third-party solutions whose interfaces are only partially standardized. Even if vendors could be convinced to open up their systems, it is highly unlikely that the investment would have a positive impact on the bottom line, given the business data collected. Furthermore, since charging points are seldom available due to the low use of the sharing vehicles, there are also problems on the operational side. A much more positive balance can be drawn from the connection of MaaS platforms. The implemented prototype shows that the developed fleet management system fulfils the basic requirements for the connection. A full demonstration during the project was not possible since no suitable MaaS provider was active in Bremen, but still the prototyped connection serves as a prove of concept and can by used for future service extensions.