Leveraging Electric Cross-Company Car Fleets through Cloud Service Chains: The Shared E-Fleet Architecture

In recent times technical developments in electric mobility have been rapid. With raising economic and ecological concerns about conventional vehicles, individuals and companies need to consider switching to electric vehicles. But due to limited range and charge times such vehicles are currently not sufficient. New mobility concepts are needed as well. In this work we present the Shared E-Fleet architecture used to enable sharing of car fleets between companies. Especially tailored to the needs of SMEs, the architecture is implemented as a cloud service chain, enabling configurability and interchangeability of services.