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The Electric Mobility mandate will bring user friendly means and solutions to the transport system that safeguard energy resources, human health and environment. Considering that electricity is the most advantageous and effective vector for well to wheel energy convey, the maximization of the range of the electric vehicle with minimum amount of energy, postulates the analysis of the system vehicle - energy supply infrastructure to define the modes of the energy transfer to the vehicle for the accomplishment of its daily mission. The consideration of the location of the energy transfer points on the road, besides the basic facilities for overnight battery charging, with the support of an E-Mobility management for connection with user and with grid for the negotiation of the most appropriate site and time for energy transfer, even bi-directionally, could be a way to define the storage system design to be integrated to the vehicle. Factors such as the type, the size and the weight of the battery, including the cost and the impact on energy, environment and human health are of increased importance to the holistic design of the system. Basic pillars for the analysis are being produced by the studies conducted in the European programs (e.g. EV-CONNECT, FABRIC and others, which are described in the paper) dealing with the network of energy supply infrastructure and the technology for the power transfer. A breakthrough element in this scenario is the wireless power transfer by magnetic field, from the road infrastructure to the vehicle, which is object of study and development in the FABRIC Project, for possible application with interoperability in static and dynamic mode of operation. This concept, with the ICT communication support and the E-Mobility Management interaction can open the way to the ultimate consequences of the optimization of the system vehicle-infrastructure in terms of application diffusion, minimization of on board storage demand and global energy effectiveness.