SOLUTIONSPlus E-Mobility Directory

Summary

The SOLUTIONSplus E-mobility Directory (2024) functions as a meta-mapping of institutional capabilities within a multinational e-mobility programme. Rather than simply listing partners, the document reveals the operational architecture behind global e-mobility deployment: a distributed network of research institutes, industry actors, municipal networks, UN agencies, and start-ups that collectively constitute the programme’s knowledge system. The profiles offer insight into how different institutional types—technical agencies like ABB or TNO, policy-oriented organisations like ICCT or UN-Habitat, and city networks such as POLIS or ICLEI—occupy complementary roles across the innovation chain, from technology development to policy integration and capacity-building. Across these contributions, the directory illustrates the increasing complexity of e-mobility implementation in the Global South and North. The document highlights that successful deployment requires simultaneous advancements in hardware (e-buses, LEVs, charging systems), software (MaaS platforms, data tools, monitoring apps), institutional mechanisms (urban mobility plans, regulatory reforms), and socio-technical processes (training, peer-learning, replication). The profiles collectively depict e-mobility as an integrated systems challenge rather than a technology substitution exercise. Demonstration pilots—from electric tricycles in Dar es Salaam to e-mopeds in Hanoi and depot charging in Madrid—are presented not just as isolated experiments but as probes into institutional readiness, user acceptance, and urban system constraints. Finally, the directory provides a structured empirical foundation for analysing how multi-level governance shapes technological transition. By documenting each organisation’s achievements, innovations, and roles across work packages, the publication shows how knowledge generation is distributed across different levels: global (toolbox, policy papers), regional (training, replication), and local (pilots, co-design, impact assessments). The result is a cross-section of how international consortia operationalise electrification agendas, offering researchers empirical material to study coordination, capacity asymmetries, policy diffusion, and the socio-technical dynamics of urban e-mobility uptake.