Funding for climate-relevant research has been substantially increased in the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) covering 2007-2013. This research will support international processes in the framework of the UNFCCC and its Kyoto Protocol. Research under FP7 is focused on four main thematic areas. of which energy and transport are two. Both aim at higher efficiencies and increased use of sustainable energy.The European Green Cars Initiative is one of the three PPPs included in the Commission's recovery package. It supports the development of new. sustainable forms of road transport and includes. among other topics. research on electric and hybrid vehicles. notably research on: (1) high density batteries; (2) electric engines; and (3) smart electricity grids and their interfaces with vehicles. Transnational cooperation within FP7 and Green Cars Initiative is well established due to the formation of large international consortia. However. these consortia are from either the energy sector or the automotive sector. but not cross sectors. Additionally. where prototypes enter field pilots. the cooperation is lost as new stakeholders such as local authorities and end-users get involved. Enevate complements the climate-research by acting across sectors. building bridges and it works down the value chain where the products of research are tested in the field. Enevate enables cooperation and the transfer of knowledge to accelerate the introduction of e-mobility. Enevate will strengthen NWE’s innovation potential by combining/developing regional competences. technologies. knowledge. skills and supply chains. It will support the development of regulation. standards. policy and public awareness. Accelerating the switch to clean transport will help generate new investments and jobs within NWE and get economies 'fit for the future' in the growth area of low-carbon transport and sustainable/renewable energy supply. Achievements: Electric Vehicle TechnologyAutocluster.NRW took a close look at today’s battery electric vehicles (BEV), analysed supply chains and found out what competences and capacities might be needed for mass production of BEV in Europe. Two major criteria can be analysed if predictions on the design of the supply chain for BEV have to be made. This is value added in production and consumer value. Value added for the production of BEV is different from those of ICE. Most obvious for the consumer is the significantly higher price of the EV, due to the cost for the battery.Charging InfrastructureFuture Transport Systems led the development of a practical tool kit designed to help organisations and project managers develop and implement EV infrastructure pilot projects and subsequently lead on to sustainably operating schemes. The tool kit includes a practical work book including development guidelines supported with generic project plans, risk registers and roles and responsibilities charts that can be adapted to a broad range of Projects.Market Drivers and E-Mobility ConceptsThe lead partner for this activity was Cardiff University. The objectives were to identify: impacts of the introduction of EVs on user and market behaviour; potential for new e-mobility concepts, and; market drivers that will influence the acceptance of the different EV mobility concepts and the conditions needed for realising their acceptance. The results were positive for EVs as respondents enjoyed their pilot experience and would be willing to consider the cars in the future, but only if two vital obstacles were overcome: cost and range. EVs are still more expensive to buy than their internal combustion engine counterparts, a discrepancy that seems especially galling when they do not offer comparative levels of performance with regards to the restricted range provided by present battery technology. Analyses of existing EV pilots in North West EuropeThe overall objective of the fourth work package, led by AutomotiveNL was mapping and taking lesson from the wealth of existing EV pilots in NWE. During the last number of years, regional and national authorities have spent millions of Euros on implementing e-mobility by means of pilot initiatives. Unfortunately, the operators of these pilots tended to work in “splendid Isolation”. The end document of this action intends to inform planners, stakeholders and policy makers in how to develop an e-mobility pilot project from the beginning, learning from Pilot Projects from different ENEVATE -regions. Road Map and Policy RecommendationsA road map and policy recommendations based on the results of the work packages of ENEVATE has been elaborated, which highlight necessary steps for the implementation of e-mobility in the partner regions and define realistic aims for 2020. It highlights the potential of e-mobility in the partner regions with the result, that e-mobility will rise, not in a revolutionary way, but slowly and steady. So that we can state that the introduction of e-mobility is not a revolution but an Evolution.Project ExtensionIn less populated areas and smaller cities E-mobility is facing substantial bottlenecks, which prevent the break-through to take off. To support the evolution of mobility and to face this problem, the ENEVATE project has been extended for one more year until end of 2014.