The Future2Mobility Cluster aims to globally accelerate electric vehicle development.

Overview

The long-term goal of the cluster is to develop electric-powered vehicles that offer maneuverability, agility and safety, and thus are able to serve the Indonesian market.

However, e-mobility is not only vehicles!

At the same time, the cluster is working to expand the local charging infrastructure in order to also ensure the conditions for introducing a high number of electric vehicles and offers further strategic partnerships in terms of financing and the acceptance and profitability of the vehicles.

Combining German engineering expertise with Asian market potential offers unique opportunities for synergies in all areas from product development over market launch to accelerating adoption.

The selected group of partners are highly skilled and true experts in their specific fields. The cluster approach allows to combine these competencies with the latest research from international universities.

Indonesia and E-mobility?

Indonesia is still in its infancy in terms of e-mobility and energy transition. In 2020, the share of renewable energy sources for electricity production was around 12%. The currently 1,300 electric vehicles are only a fraction of the combined 120 Million vehicles on Indonesia’s roads.

The same accounts for charging stations, with combined 7000 public fast and slow charging points across the archipelago.

However, regulatory changes in both industries offer a huge future market potential. The Indonesian government announced that 20% of the vehicles in the country are to be operated electrically by 2025, to decarbonize the transportation sector (PR 55/2019). In the same period, the renewable energy share shall exceed 23%, to further improve Indonesia’s grid emission factor.

This translates in a vast market potential for e-mobility and sustainable energy generation technologies.

The Cluster Approach

Future2Mobility is an international ZIM innovation cluster, funded by the German Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. This provides the cluster partners with a cluster management, supporting them in:

  • exploring R&D projects,

  • acquire the necessary partners,

  • raise capital for the projects through grants,

  • accompanying the projects in a target-oriented way,

  • publicising the partners and the resulting innovations.

Focus Points

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Vehicle Solar Integration

Vehicle integrated solar technology enables to cover the electricity consumption of the EV through energy generated by the vehicle itself.

The Future2Mobility partner Sono Motors is working on ground breaking innovations in this space. Aiming to cover the milage for daily commutes by pure solar power, this could make EVs carbon neutral, regardless of the ways of electricity generation in the respective country. This offers a huge potential especially for countries like Indonesia, with a poor grid emission factor.

Renewable Energy

While western countries benefit from stable grits and very scalable energy production capacities, developing countries lack in electricity infrastructure, especially in rural areas.

The cluster partner Africa GreenTec is developing ground breaking solutions to electrify rural villages. Their solar containers can be placed almost everywhere in the world and work fully autark - to deliver cheap and reliable electricity. This can be utilised to empower rural villages, create jobs and new businesses and eventually to charge electric vehicles on lower costs than with gasoline.

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Charging Solutions

Electric vehicles and renewable energies are a great combination! However, to fuel the vehicles with energy, smart charging solutions are needed.

Since many vehicle owners live in places, where the infrastructure doesn’t allow to deploy a sufficient amount of charging stations, HeyCharge developed an entirely new charging platform, combined with an innovative hardware - to charge vehicles at absolutely low cost.