Electrification of transport is a topic that is gaining momentum all over the world, still mostly in developed countries, at an accelerating pace. This is about replacing the internal combustion engine that has been responsible for moving vehicles in the last century, with an electric motor that uses the electrochemical energy stored inside a battery to do the same thing instead.

Electric vehicles’ uptake forecasts being published every year show that conventional vehicles with internal combustion engines may become images of the past in as little as 30 years. But what about all the electric energy required to get this growing fleet of electric vehicles moving? The transport sector needs to get interestingly close to the energy sector going forward. These two sectors have traditionally been completely distinct. Conventional vehicles needed to fill up their tanks with gas found in gas stations, while the energy sector had to only worry about producing and transferring electricity for keeping our lights on across the world. This is now changing, since all the energy required to charge up the batteries of electric vehicles needs to be provided through charge points installed at all various locations always connected to the electricity grid.