Today, ICLEI Member Oslo’s Governing Mayor Raymond Johansen launched a new e-mobility pilot project in the city’s Røverkollen housing cooperative.

People across Europe are expected to make the shift from traditional cars to electric ones in the coming years. How can we make that transition ‘hassle-free’? How can we achieve the dream of a zero-emission transport system based on electric vehicles running on green energy? The European research and development project GreenCharge is supporting pilot projects in European cities to investigate these questions and make the move to hassle-free electric transport.

Oslo’s Røverkollen housing cooperative is a perfect place to investigate such questions and test solutions. Electric vehicle installations are already in place there and are ready for testing. In Røverkollen, peaks in power consumption will be addressed using smart power management, solar power, and a battery that allows power to be used when needed, and not just when the sun is shining.

The Oslo pilot was launched by the Governing Mayor, alongside the city’s Director of the Agency for Urban Environment, Vice Mayor, Chairperson of the Røverkollen housing cooperative, and the GreenCharge Project Coordinator.

This marks the first GreenCharge pilot project to launch, with pilots in ICLEI Members Barcelona (Spain) and Bremen (Germany) coming soon. Pilots will test e-mobility infrastructure for both private and public transport, targeting different renewable energy sources, and with infrastructure in apartments, offices, public spaces, and intermodal hubs.

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To learn more about the pilot, read here (in Norwegian).
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