16 November 2023

09:35 – 10:20

Amphithéâtre Painlevé

Rémi Bastien

Rémi Bastien is an ECAM engineer. After various responsibilities in the Renault group, he became Director of Research and Innovation for the Renault group (2009-15), before becoming Global Director for Autonomous Driving Prospective for the Renault/Nissan Alliance (2015-16) and finally Director of Automotive Prospective for the Renault group until 2021. He is Honorary Chairman of Next Move (mobility cluster), CTO of FISITA, member of the Shift Project and Chairman of the PlanèteA association. He was a board member of EUCAR (president in 2012), president of VEDECOM (public/private research institute) from 2017 to 2020, and Director of the “Power Electronics” program of the PFA and the French Electronics industry from 2020 to the end of 2021. He is co-author with Luc Julia of the book “On va droit dans le mur? “published by First.

Conference: Can hypermobility do without fossil fuels?

The domestication of coal and above all oil accelerated the movement of goods and people exponentially. Mobility is not a consequence of prosperity, but rather the opposite. As a result, we’ve become accustomed to sending our goods from the ends of the earth, or traveling far and wide by plane for our vacations or business. This has boosted our economies. The abundance and affordability of fossil fuels has allowed us to use, and even abuse, this unlimited mobility until recently. Climate constraints will force us to reduce our use of fossil fuels to zero before 2050. Will we be able to find alternative energies, or will we have to accept limits on the mobility of goods and people, or a combination of the two?