EXPEXOP POR PERVEIEVWIEW
Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Technology
Expo Europe and The Battery Show
28-30 April, 2020, Stuttgart, Germany
Electric & Hybrid Vehicle Technology Expo Europe
brings the leading experts and suppliers in the EV
industry together again for its biggest show ever
The growth of the Electric & Hybrid
Vehicle Technology Expo Europe
(EVT) has been phenomenal. “It’s
actually been amazing. We’ve been a
part of this since its inception, and
we watched it grow from the 50 people
displaying merchandise all the way up to this
year, where they have sold out,” Brad Gibson,
global business director at Lord, exclaims after
attending the 2019 trade fair.
The fair was a great success with nearly
11,000 attendees, over 600 delegates to the
event’s educational conference, and
participants of all types from 82 countries. The
event’s managers expect the 2020 edition held
in Stuttgart, Germany, to be even better. They
project it will attract over 12,500 attendees and
more than twice as many as the fair’s fi rst
edition in 2017. The attendees come to meet
the show’s 610 exhibitors, up from 498 in 2019.
The fair’s growth mirrors that of the
e-mobility market. “A global shift in consumer
spending habits, married to a growing sense of
environmental responsibility, especially among
younger drivers, is sending EVs mainstream.
Research shows millennial and Gen Z buyers
are more environmentally conscious than their
predecessors – a mindset which makes an
electric car with zero tailpipe emissions seem
increasingly attractive,” says Wired magazine.
In the words of Jim Greig, Lord’s global director
of business development and sales for
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electrifi cation solutions: “It’s a bright future for
the EV market, I can’t wait to see what it holds.”
This growth is especially strong in Europe.
Economic forecasting company BloombergNEF
expects European sales of electric and hybrid
passenger cars to grow 35% in the fi rst nine
months of 2020, a faster rate than China or
North America. During the 2020s, Europe will
pull ahead of the United States as the second
largest market (after China) for electric
passenger vehicles. In December, European
Commission president Ursula Von der Leyen
announced the European Union’s initiative to
reach climate neutrality, which is to produce
only as much as greenhouse gas as the
environment can safely absorb, by 2050.
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