Abstract

This anthology is a plea for a changed and expanded view of the currently much-discussed electromobility. The battery electric vehicle is understood here as a system innovation whose strengths and acceptance will develop from the multiple networking of the technical artefact with new mobility services, a different energy infrastructure and changed forms of urban mobility. Technical developments must go hand in hand with a socio-cultural innovation strategy that centres on finding and shaping previously unknown meanings and contexts of meaning for the new mobility technology.

In this sense, the battery electric car should be seen as a building block of a larger social and cultural change process. Scenarios, narratives and future images of a successful overall transformation of modern mobility provide an important impetus for this process. According to the main finding of this book, the electric vehicle offers the opportunity to take a look - albeit a fragmentary one - at the emerging images of future mobility and a post-fossil society, as if through a "peephole".

Authors

Rammler, Stephan