Smart Grid and E-Mobility

摘要

Industrial companies and energy suppliers are working closely together with automotive engineering to make the vision of electric mobility in individual traffic a reality. An electric car is simultaneously both a means of transport and a mobile energy-storage device that can also be used as a source of energy in public networks in the medium term. Such cars could also be used as controllable loads for the fluctuating feed of wind or solar energy into a power grid - provided that the layout of the network permits such a scenario. As an integrated technology company Siemens is heavily involved in electric mobility in its Corporate Technology department and in the Energy and Industry Sectors. The work focuses not only on the requirements made on the electric vehicle itself but also on the design of the infrastructure of the power grids. Areas under investigation include power generation and distribution, traffic and energy management, charging infrastructure, intelligent electricity meters, power electronics, software and sensors, and of course also the electric drives, and energy recovery and storage.