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21 AutoData | April 2018 last decade the biggest challenge in the market was to define who would arrive first, the demand for electric cars or the infrastructure”. The century-old Swedish company uses its knowledge and expertise in a number of industries - electrical network infrastructure, for example – and it is in- tensifying the distribution of its portfolio of electric vehicle chargers, including portable, fast-charging models. A good example is the loading system installed at a final bus stop in Norway, which started operating in February. The results so far have reach 6 thou- sand 500 loading stations traded in 57 countries, which for ABB shows that the discussion about the egg and the chicken is over and the moment is now the birth of a new business. Or several new ones. other obstacles little debated so far, and that may short-circuit such global elec- trification. The most urgent issue, however, is the necessary infrastructure and the important advances in this area to meet demand that begins to require its first kilowatts. For experts working on the construction of this newbusiness model, linked to the distribu- tion and supply structure of electric cars, months ago a major clash that paralyzed the evolution of electrification ended: after all, who came first, the egg or the chicken? For Reiner Schoenrock, Asea Brown Boveri’s vice president of communica- tion for technology and innovation, better known by the abbreviation ABB, “in the vrx/Shutterstock.com