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Dr. Reha Tözün, MBA
Stuttgart Region Economic
Development Corporation
Stuttgart, 16.05.2013
Mobility in the Stuttgart Region
The Stuttgart Region
• The City of Stuttgart and the 5 neighbouring districts
• 2.7 mio. inhabitants from 170 countries
• Rare mix of competitive manufacturing industries and innovative services, e.g. one of the leading automotive and production technology clusters in Europe.
• Economical and political centre of South-West Germany with globalised large-enterprises and globally-oriented SMES and German „Mittelstand“(„Hidden Champions“)
• High level of R&D investments - 7,1% of GDP, the highest in Europe (as of 2011)
• Q: Prognos - SWOT Analysis – the Region Stuttgart
The Stuttgart Region
The Automotive Region. Where it all began... 1886 and the Name of Jellineks Daughter...
Automobile OEMs in the Stuttgart Region
Die Region Stuttgart
Cluster facilitation
Investor services
Location marketing
Stuttgart Region Economic Development Corporation (WRS)
• Founded in 1995
• The primary shareholder is the Verband Region Stuttgart
• ~50 employees
• Budget 2012: ~8.5 mio. €
• Activities: Network management, Innovation support (Competence Centers Program), Skilled-employees, supporting entrepreneurship
• Networks: Automotive, energy, clean-tech, IT, Open Source Software, “creative class”, health-care, business-angels, …
• EU Projects, resident office in Brussels….
Already completed: Pilot Region Phase I
• Passenger vehicles
3 Fiat 500 Elektras
5 vehicles for Car-Sharing (model tba)
25 E-Smarts
3 Porsche Boxster Es
• Other
2 commercial vehicles for public services
• 2-wheelers
600 e-bikes
480 pedelecs for rent
• Busses
5 Citaro articulated/bendy-busses
1 FIAT Ducato hybrid
• Delivery vans
50 Vitos Daimler E-CELL
Looking for riders…
LivingLab BWe mobil consists of nearly
40 projects with more than 100 partners
Until 2015 2000 e-vehicles and 1000
charging points
Showcase regions of electrical mobility /
Call an E-Bike E-car2go
Events
Consortium: Elsass Franche-Comté, Bern,
Stuttgart, Vorarlberg, Slovenia and West
Transdanubia (Hungary).
Overall goal is to promote more sustainable
transport through the development of
electromobility solutions for cities and regions.
Development of concepts for future
business models,
Design of cross-border field tests to
demonstrate state-of-the-art in
technology and infrastructure,
Elaboration and adoption of a cross-
border action plan to strengthen the
research and knowledge base and
contributing to competitiveness of
European «mobility industries.
EU-Projekt ELMOs : „Electromobility Solutions for Cities and Regions“
Thanks for your kind attention.
Stuttgart Region Economic Development Corporation
Dr. Reha Tözün
0711 / 22835-893
