Today was a very successful launch of our 8th #RTR2025 Conference. More than 650 participants registered on-site and after speeches from @Rosalinde van der Vlies (DG RTD), Erik von Breska (DG MOVE), Pablo PEREZ-ILLANA (CINEA - European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency), Christian Merkt (CCAM Association) and Michael Lippert (BEPA - Batteries European Partnership Association) our Chairman Stephan Neugebauer made a very clear call to continue having a strong support to pre-competitive #research and #innovation activities. While results from EU-funded projects cannot always be linked directly to product development, demonstrating impact is key for all of us. Flagship initiatives can play a role by putting research and innovation results, Member States activities and industrial investment together. A good example is the activity put forward to support the emergence reverse factory; curious to hear a little bit more? Tune in for our circularity plenary session tomorrow afternoon !
The first 2Zero session was dedicated to development of advanced solutions for #EV charging to benefit both the users and the grid. eCharge4Drivers, and #EGVI funded project, presented its final results and three #2Zero project (FLOW Project, XL-CONNECT and DriVe2X) also presented their intermediate results. The session led to a very lively discussion, in which, among other topics, the #V2G, impact on battery degradation, cost-benefit for the users, the #DSOs, the #TSOs … were extensively discussed.
Thanks to Guido Sacchetto and Christof Schernus for the co-moderation !
Looking forward for another day of discussion tomorrow.
