Electric Vehicle Systems – Can European Targets Be Met?
Since 2005, Mats Larsson has studied the amounts of resources that will be needed to change transportation systems to electric vehicles on a large scale. He has written eight internationally published books on the change, starting with “Global Energy Transformation” published in 2009 by Palgrave. His most recent book is “How Building the Future Really Works” from 2023. He will discuss the volume of investments that will be needed to use electric vehicles on a large scale and will cover, volume needs and alternative technologies and solutions in the following areas:
– Power generation
– Transmission grids
– Regional power grids
– Local power grids
– Charging infrastructure
– Battery storage technologies and Vehicle-to-Grid
– Vehicles: cars, lorries, buses
He will also give numerous examples of technical and business-related opportunities and challenges that need to be addressed by governments and companies over the coming decades. He will provide examples from projects that he has been involved in that illustrate the challenges, for example the EU project South Baltic Digital Electromobility Enabling Services.
In his presentation he will address the issues of whether the change targets set by the UK government and the EU are realistic and if the present way of driving, organizing and financing the change is likely to lead to the change results that many expect.
Speaker
Mats Larsson is the founder of Global Energy Transformation Institute. He has over 30 years’ experience as a business and management consultant, developing business strategies for companies in many different industries. He has worked with the large-scale transformation to electromobility and sustainability since 2004, leading a sequence of projects. This work has resulted in five internationally published books, starting with Global Energy Transformation, published in 2009, then The Business of Global Energy Transformation 2012, Circular Business Models 2018, Redrawing the Map of the Future 2019, and The Blind Guardians of Ignorance 2020.
In Global Energy Transformation 2009 Mats launched the idea that the large-scale change to electromobility and a sustainable society will require large-scale transformation programmes. He has since then elaborated on this idea and developed strategies for various aspects of the transformations, such as the expansion of vehicle fleets and charging infrastructure, power generation and distribution, the development of training programmes for the groups of professionals that need to become involved in the change, and development of the companies and business models that will be needed.
Over the years, he has supported hundreds of companies in a large number of industries with business development and growth strategies.
Mats lives in southern Sweden with his wife.
About Energy Futures Lab
Energy Futures Lab is one of seven Global Institutes at Imperial College London. The institute was established to address global energy challenges by identifying and leading new opportunities to serve industry, government and society at large through high quality research, evidence and advocacy for positive change. The institute aims to promote energy innovation and advance systemic solutions for a sustainable energy future by bringing together the science, engineering and policy expertise at Imperial and fostering collaboration with a wide variety of external partners.