Markets and Policy Measures in the Evolution of Electric Mobility

Dirk Fornahl studied economics and business administration at the University of Hannover (Germany), at the Dublin City University (Dublin, Ireland) and at the University of California (Berkeley, USA) with a focus on Economic Policy, Environmental Economics and Systems Management, and Labour Economics. Since 1999 Research Associate at the Max Planck Institute for Research into Economic Systems, Evolutionary Economics Group. From June 1999 until May 2001 working in the 'InnoRegio' programme of the Federal Ministry of Education and Science.

Introduction.- Strategic perspectives of electric mobility - Steps towards the slope of enlightenment.- On the road to an electric mobility mass market - How can early adopters be characterized?.- How to increase the attractiveness of electric cars as fleet cars?.- Flexible Carsharing - Potential for the Diffusion of Electric Mobility.- Public e-mobility funding and its influence on cooperation and innovation.- China's leapfrog to new electric vehicles.