Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI

Within Europe, heavy-duty vehicles are responsible for a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions in the transport sector and therefore play a central role in achieving the climate targets set by the EU. The limited range of electric trucks requires a European public fast-charging network to enable the widespread deployment of battery solutions. To investigate the existing electrification potential, we modelled the European road freight flows based on the ETISplus dataset.

On July 1, Fraunhofer ISI joined the new Fraunhofer Group for Energy Technologies and Climate Protection as a guest institute. This Group develops technologies and innovations for the generation, distribution and storage as well as efficient use of renewable energies in its member institutes. Fraunhofer ISI's main role will be to contribute aspects of innovation and acceptance research and to enhance the competence of the alliance in systems analysis. It is also a member of several research units of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft that deal with energy issues.  

With a view to the presentation of the Reinhard Mohn Prize 2020, Fraunhofer ISI supports the Bertelsmann Stiftung in the professional and scientific preparation of the award ceremony.

The project is based on the hypothesis that the productive combination of the two paradigms, “fostering innovative capacities and technological competitiveness” and “solving social problems through innovation”, can generate positive effects and open up new potentials. It identifies and analyzes political initiatives and approaches that explicitly strive for this integration and are capable of effectively combining them.

After two years of intensive research, five results papers have now been published.