Electric Vehicles

The ambition to grow in the EV market fits very well to KEMA's global vision, mission and strategy.

KEMA wants to play a major role in ensuring the availability, sustainability andprofitability of energy. The transition to electric vehicles fits well to this vision and mission of KEMA, as this will result in more dependency of the society on theavailability of electricity. In the market of EV, several stakeholders have questions about technical and business issues, in which KEMA can offer added value and this is expected to grow.

Market developments
The current market for KEMA in this field is mainly driven by the direct developments of our key clients that have to deal with the introduction of electric vehicles (mainly the grid operators and the utilities) and the questions are strongly innovative. Moreover KEMA can serve new clients like for example the automotive sector with her knowledge, increasing therewith the possible revenue stream.

The introduction of electric vehicles is a 'technology push' market. Most of the automotivemanufacturers work on electric vehicles (plug in hybrids or all electric vehicles); theyannounced the market introduction of their first vehicles for the coming years. But also newentrees will come with electric vehicles. This means several models will be launched in theyears 2011, 2012 and 2013.

This market introduction results in several requests for consulting services (both from aneconomic as well as from a more technical point of view) on electric vehicles, varying fromstrategic questions how to deal with this change in the market, via technical questionsconcerning grid impact, battery performance and charging infrastructure, to the testing andcertification requests for vehicles as well as for charging facilities.