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Mobilize Iléo Concept, the urban development that turns charging electric vehicles into a matter of course

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Mobilize Iléo Concept, the urban development that turns charging electric vehicles into a matter of course

Recharging one’ s mobile phone, which has become an essential part of everyday life, is not a problem. Why should recharging a car be? Patrick Lecharpy, Mobilize Design Director, and Patrick Jouin, Urban Design Specialist, explain us how Iléo Concept was born out of the observation of the use of new forms of mobility, particularly electric and shared forms.

  • brand vision
  • electric vehicle
  • shared mobility

 

Mobilize offers an urban development concept that brings energy closer to where it is needed. Mobilize Iléo Concept not only allows you to recharge your car, but also to take advantage of this break to sit down, read, or enjoy a moment of conviviality, sheltered from the rain or heat. Easily identifiable from afar and harmoniously integrated into the city, this street furniture creates a real landscape.

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Mobilize Share, car rental and car sharing in all circumstances

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Mobilize Share, car rental and car sharing in all circumstances

For a few hours, a few days, a few weeks, Mobilize Share vehicles are available on a self-service basis 24 hours a day, 7 days a week via smartphone, or directly at Renault Group dealerships. Guillaume Naegelen, General Manager, shows us that Mobilize Share meets all the mobility needs of everyday life!

  • brand vision
  • electric vehicle
  • shared mobility

 

A city car to go to a business meeting, a utility vehicle to bring back some furniture, a road car to go away for the weekend… Mobilize Share has the answer for every situation, thanks to an easy reservation via its app, a wide choice of vehicles, and an optimum geographical coverage based on the 6,000 sales outlets of the Renault Group dealer network in Europe.

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Mobilize Fast Charge, soon 200 charging stations for electrified vehicles in Europe

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Mobilize Fast Charge, soon 200 charging stations for electrified vehicles in Europe

Located near an expressway, Mobilize Fast Charge stations will allow the recharging of any electrified vehicle… for a short break to be enjoyed in a dedicated space. Régis Fricotté, Sales Director, tells us about this ultra-fast charging network.

  • brand vision
  • electric vehicle
  • energy transition

 

You know the popular belief that it is difficult to make long journeys in an electric vehicle? Mobilize Fast Charge is the answer, so that travelling in an electric car becomes a matter of course, especially across the different countries of Europe.

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With 233,000 new electric cars registered in the second quarter of 2022 in Europe, it’s no exaggeration to say that they are no longer the exception on our roads.

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Mobilize, the brand that goes beyond automotive

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Mobilize, the brand that goes beyond automotive

The new Renault Group brand makes mobility a different experience. More sustainable, more accessible, more affordable mobility. Nathalie Nouna, from the Mobilize strategy team, explains it all to us!

  • brand vision

 

Did you know that passenger cars are used only 10% on average over a year? That they lose about 50% of their value after only three years? And that the car pool is responsible for 15% of CO2 emissions in Europe? Mobilize answers all these issues.

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Mobilize, an activist brand

Society is changing at an increasingly fast pace. Consumers have different expectations, focused more on transport use and less on the car itself.

Mobilize and women’s rugby, representing shared values

Lace up your boots. Break out the camphor. Mobilize has announced a partnership with the French women’s rugby team and now features predominantly on the team shirt.

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Mobility is one of our most precious allies in achieving carbon neutrality. Mobilize is fully aware of this and has developed a range of services adapted to each need.

chap. 2: the battery… what are its (super) powers

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the battery
[chap. 2] what are its super-powers?

Artefact is the video series conceived by Mobilize that tells the story of mobility through its objects.
Discover the episode focused on the battery of the electric vehicle. Artefact tells you all about this essential link of low-carbon mobility!

  • electric vehicle
  • energy storage
  • energy transition

 

This episode on the battery is broken down into two videos. Here, in the second chapter, Artefact invite you to discover the batteries’ superpowers in the service of the electric grid. Charging your electric vehicle while reducing its impact, is it possible? What is the “second life of batteries”? Mobilize shares its solutions to make the electric vehicle batteries a boost for the energy transition.

 

 

Previously, in the first chapter, Artefact explained the manufacture and operation of batteries. Check it out!

 

the battery
[chap. 1] what is it?

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Mobility is one of our most precious allies in achieving carbon neutrality. Mobilize is fully aware of this and has developed a range of services adapted to each need.

chap 1: the battery… what is it?

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the battery what is it? [chap. 1]

Artefact is the video series conceived by Mobilize that tells the story of mobility through its objects.
Discover the episode focused on the battery of the electric vehicle. Artefact tells you all about this essential link of low-carbon mobility!

  • electric vehicle
  • energy storage
  • energy transition

 

This episode on the battery is broken down into two videos. Here, in the first chapter, Artefact explains the manufacture and operation of batteries. What is a battery? How does it work? How are they made? What happens to them at the end of their life? With Mobilize, the basics of electric vehicle batteries will no longer hold any secrets for you!

 
Want to learn more? The second chapter will go deeper into the benefits of the electric vehicle batteries in regard of the energy transition… Check it out!

the battery what are its super-powers? [chap. 2]

Charging your electric vehicle while reducing its impact, is it possible? What is the “second life of batteries”? Mobilize shares its solutions to make the electric vehicle batteries a boost for the energy transition.

watch the video

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from microwatts to big impact

Roch Drozdowski-Strehl, Managing Director of the Institut Photovoltaïque of Île-de-France, and Yasmine Assef, Performance Director of the Energy Department at Mobilize, take you on a journey to discover the immense potential of stationary storage!

the end of polluting generators with Mobilize and betteries

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how Mobilize solutions contribute to carbon neutrality

Mobility is one of our most precious allies in achieving carbon neutrality. Mobilize is fully aware of this and has developed a range of services adapted to each need.

Mobilize and women’s rugby, representing shared values

rugby mobilize
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Mobilize and women’s rugby, representing shared values

Lace up your boots. Break out the camphor. Mobilize has announced a partnership with the French women’s rugby team and now features predominantly on the team shirt.

This alliance is not by chance. Rugby reflects a mindset aligned with Mobilize. The desire to get out on the field and be ready for action. Playing as a team to get ahead in the game. Through this partnership, Mobilize hopes to show that “French flair” is a perfect fit with the women’s game, while scoring a win for sustainable mobility.

  • brand vision

1) Team spirit, a shared priority!

A rugby team is never just 15 individuals making up the numbers. To create a group, you need synergy on the field. Each person has their own role while supporting the others. The forwards must be able to rely on the fly- and scrum-half and their three-quarters for their efforts to produce results.

Ultimately, rugby represents an entire ecosystem that goes well beyond the field, from the players through to the staff. “When there is no more ball, there are still friends,” said Jean-Pierre Rives. This approach works even better with this sisterhood of the French women’s team who are professional players for the majority of their time while still holding down a part-time job. Solidarity is key to creating the perfect conditions for cooperative training at the highest level.

Similarly, Mobilize and the Renault Group are contributing in their own field, by supporting players training for a career change, once their international rugby journey comes to an end. A forward-looking and winning approach! Clearly, the mentality of the French national team is as valuable in competition as it is in business.

 

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2) Mobility on the field as in life

First and foremost, rugby is a game of movement. And while you sometimes have to hold on to the ball, it’s only to get the action going again and reach the end goal. As a sustainable mobility brand, this philosophy of movement clearly resonates with Mobilize. Especially since a team not only moves about on the field, but also between games.

That’s why transport needs are important, not just for the French women’s rugby team, but for clubs at all levels, and for the spectators who go to matches. Having an expert partner you can rely on, with a renowned local and international reputation in mobility services, is essential.

 

3) The need to challenge stereotypes and open up new perceptions

Rugby is a sport that requires the utmost physical and mental commitment. The men’s version of the sport is often referred to as “a thug’s game played by gentlemen”.

It calls for a fighting spirit and perseverance which is clearly reflected in the women’s game. However, the stereotypes associated with this sport still need revisiting.

As an activist brand, Mobilize relates to this combative attitude and this determination to change perceptions, in particular by demonstrating that transportation is not only about cars. You can be a “game-changer” and still play by the rules. Rugby, however rough it may be, promotes values that remain the same for everyone. This combination leaves room for different approaches to the same sport and epitomizes the Mobilize mentality.

Mobilize and women’s rugby represent shared values and an ambition to make their mark. Whether on the field or out on the road, it’s about a stubborn determination to push the boundaries and encourage new ways of looking at the world.

 

* Jean-Pierre Rives is a famous French rugby player, who was most active between 1967 and 1986. He played for the French national team as a flanker.

 

Photo credits: Julien Poupart; Inigo Brothers / France Rugby

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the energy mix in geographic regions, on 3 levels

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my battery, trusted partner of the energy transition

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my battery, trusted partner of the energy transition

24.02.2022

  • electric vehicle
  • energy storage
  • energy transition

Moving away from fossil fuels places solar and wind as essential power sources of the energy transition. Mobilize, a brand committed to carbon neutrality, seeks to foster greater integration of such renewable energy sources in the energy mix. How? Thanks to stationary storage solutions like Advanced Battery Storage. In utilising electric vehicle batteries, it also serves to extend their life span…it’s time to find out more.

 

 

Every second of every day, we use energy. To move, to communicate, to heat… Around the world, such use of energy is still heavily dependent on fossil fuels. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), coal, gas, and oil still account for 80% of global energy production. But, unlike solar or wind, these fossil fuels are limited resources. The shift away from them and over to renewable energy is a process involving a number of challenges. First and foremost, they present a major flaw: intermittency. That is where stationary storage comes into play.

Why store energy?

Demand for energy, in particular electricity, varies throughout the year and also of the course of a day. Periods of high demand, such as 7.30pm, are currently covered by output from thermal power plants or through imported electricity. Storage technology is designed to stock surplus energy output that is later fed back into the grid later during peak demand, without having to resort other options that are CO2 intensive.

Storage is an essential factor of the renewable energy equation. In fact, while solar power is abundant and easy to tap into via photovoltaic panels, and wind power is growing steadily, their biggest drawback is their intermittent output. In other words, wind turbines and solar panels are great when there is wind or the sun is shining, but what do you do when there isn’t even the slightest breeze, there are clouds in the sky, or at night?

Storage is used to compensate for such fluctuations, it is like a fuel tank that fills up fills up during peak production and empties out when demand is high. It is called ‘stationary storage’ when it involves fixed batteries, unlike mobile storage, such as computer or car batteries. Mobilize is tackling the issue head on with its ‘Advanced Battery Storage’ stationary storage devices that have already been rolled at several sites in France and Europe.

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Stationnary storage help compensate renewables intermittent output

Stationary storage and electric vehicle batteries: a perfect match!

In addition to providing a sustainable solution for renewable energies, stationary storage is also a viable reusing option for the types of batteries found in electric cars. When a battery is no longer fit for use in a vehicle, and before being recycled, it can be given a ‘second life’ in electricity storage, which is a less rigorous and demanding task in terms of energy density and power.

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EV batteries can have a second life
“A battery is much more than just a tool used in mobility. Once its life being useful in a vehicle has come to an end, it still has considerable residual value and can be used for other purposes that are less demanding being used in a car, such as stationary storage. We see it as the next logical step.”
Christophe
Program Manager for Energy Services at Mobilize in charge of rolling out the Advanced Battery Storage project

The Advanced Battery Storage is Europe’s largest stationary electricity storage device ever built from electric vehicle batteries. The batteries are stacked into containers (30 to 60 batteries per container) which are then joined up and plugged into the grid. Each container represents a capacity of 1 MWh (megawatt hour), which is roughly as much energy as an average French household uses in three months. While the system uses second-life batteries, there are also some additional unused batteries that are eased in to their ‘career’ before being used in electric vehicles such as the Renault ZOE.

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The storage capacity of each container is roughly as much as the consumption of an average French home in three months

Challenges to be overcome, but there is potential

High storage capacity, increased range, small space: these are some of the challenges faced by this new technology. Rome wasn’t built in a day!  Bear in mind that the first lead-acid battery dates back to 1859 and the advent of Li-ion technology and the first unit sold was only in 1991!

However, technology is advancing at a much faster pace is now showing great potential: ultimately, the storage capacity of Advanced Battery Storage will reach 70 MWh. That is close to the daily energy use of town with 5,000 homes! 

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With the fight against global warming calling for more renewable energy, stationary storage – and therefore electric vehicle batteries – is proving its worth as a major asset in helping champion the energy transition.

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Mobilize : Mobilize, a brand committed to carbon neutrality

Around the world of green energy

In France, as required by current legislation on the Energy Transition for green growth, renewable energies will have to account for 40% of electricity generation by 2030.

A quick trip around the world*, gives a quick understanding that some of our neighbours are already doing well.

Iceland, for example, took the path of renewables a long time ago. It is the world’s leading country in terms of green energy production per capita, with renewables covering 100% of the country’s energy use.

Costa Rica has produced nearly 100% of its electricity from renewable sources since May 2019. The country achieved such an ambitious goal through hydro, solar, wind, and geothermal energy – made possible thanks to roughly sixty volcanoes

In Norway, renewable energy accounted for nearly 70% of total electricity consumption by the end of 2015. In 2020, the share in the mix reached 95%, mainly due to a large use of hydro power. This is one of the best levels in Europe.

*(source: Lendopolis, subsidiary of La Banque Postale)

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