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The State Agency for New Mobility Solutions and Automotive, e-mobil BW GmbH, coordinates the Cluster Electric Mobility South-West. As the network for stakeholders from the entire added-value chain, the cluster offers access to current market and industry trends. In a cross-industry approach, the leading-edge Cluster Electric Mobility South-West collaborates with an impressive network of companies, universities and research institutes, providing a decisive impetus to the industrialisation of electric mobility in the South-West of Germany.
Cluster Electric Mobility South-West
+49 711 892385-51 konstantin.kolasa@e-mobilbw.deIn a region that has been home to the automotive industry and its suppliers for more than 130 years, the Cluster Electric Mobility South-West unites over 200 stakeholders from industry and science. Within the cluster, large, medium-sized and small businesses from different industries are brought together with research institutes in the form of a unique, extremely stable cooperation network that has grown over a long period of time, accelerating research and development. The cluster makes a decisive contribution to the technological transformation towards low-emission, competitive and marketable mobility.
In 2012 the Cluster successfully participated in the Leading-Edge Cluster Competition, as part of the High-Tech Strategy 2020 of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The award included funding of 40 million euros for research projects. In 2014, the cluster was awarded the Baden-Württemberg Cluster Excellence label and the European Cluster Management Excellence Label GOLD. Since then, it has been a member of Go-Cluster, the German Federal Ministry of Economics' cluster policy excellence initiative.
The cluster retained the Excellence Label in GOLD label through numerous recertifications up to and including 2023.
Since 2024, the cluster has been realigning itself in a comprehensive development process in order to meet the transformation challenges facing the automotive industry in Baden-Württemberg.
Today, the cluster is focused on distinct focus areas. These are vehicle technologies (i.e., electric motors, innovative & digital vehicle technologies, commercial vehicles), battery technologies (from manufacturing to recycling), charging technologies and charging infrastructure, manufacturing (i.e. software-defined manufacturing), qualification and skilled workers, and internationalisation.
The Cluster Electric Mobility South-West is managed by the State Agency for New Mobility Solutions and Automotive, e-mobil BW. Get to know the activities of the cluster in our image video.